Tax evasion crackdowns, efficiency savings and welfare cuts are easy political sells – but getting these measures to deliver large amounts of revenue is much more difficult.
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The Alberta government has been involving itself with public sector bargaining in an unprecedented way compared to previous provincial governments and those in every other province and territory.
Without more transparency about AI use, it will be difficult for people to challenge biased decisions against them.
With one exception, it offers refreshing guidance to jurisdictions across Australia showing signs of complacency about integrity.
Many reviews over the years have revealed the efficiency dividend often does impact the level and quality of services, particularly for smaller agencies and particularly over time.
South Africa’s public sector works somewhat better than those of most other middle-income countries. Yet, unlike them, it has not managed to achieve gains in the midst of messiness.
In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
Research around the world shows a consistent pattern of failures in public sector policy and project implementation. Yet we continue to embark upon implementation built on bias and faulty logic.
The Trump administration is preparing to shift billions in veterans’ health care spending to private providers. Research suggests privatizing essential services comes with a social cost.
An inexperienced senior executive may defer to inappropriate sources for advice, treating technical disagreements as personality conflicts or interference.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
The government must try harder if it wants to ensure recruitment and retention in the profession.
Public sector corruption is a major challenge to doing business in Africa and players are mostly ill-equipped to deal with it. Business schools can teach the skills to tackle it.
An overhaul of the probation system has left the justice system foundering.
A deep dive into public sector earnings data since 2005 and how it compares to private sector pay.
There are other ways to make savings that don’t ride rough shod over firefighters’ contracts.
Labor says that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen 20% under the Abbott-Turnbull government. Is that right?
Rising membership of public sector unions and the growing political influence of these unions have led to government workers earning a premium over their private sector counterparts.
The picture is more complex than George Osborne lets on.
If the FTSE 100 can do it, then the public sector can also wake up to the benefits of female representation.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of the Practice of International Development, Johns Hopkins University
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Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Tutor, University of Surrey
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Research Director at the Centre for Policy Development and PhD Student, Macquarie University
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Wolverhampton
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich
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Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries, EPFL – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
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Professor & Director, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University
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Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Southampton
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
