Rehabilitating government : pay and employment reform in Africa

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Rehabilitating government : pay and employment reform in Africa

edited by David L. Lindauer, Barbara Nunberg

Avebury, c1996

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Published in association with the World Bank

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A collection of essays that reflect the complexities of designing civil service pay and employment reforms. This volume documents the nature and extent of prevailing difficulties and examines lessons learned from the implementation of reforms in civil service pay and employment.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Diagnosing the problem: government pay and employment policies and economic performance, David L. Lindauer
  • diagnosis with limited information - government pay and employment reform in Somalia, Peter Gregory
  • public expenditure and civil service reform in Tanzania, Mike Stevens
  • recognizing labour market constraints - government-donor competition for manpower in Mozambique, Peter R. Fallon and Luiz A. Pereira da Silva
  • preparing for civil service pay and employment reform - a primer, Mike Stevens. Part 2 Attempts at reform: experience with civil service pay and employment reform - an overview, Barbara Nunberg
  • implementing civil service pay and employement reform in Africa - the experiences of Ghana, the Gambia and Guinea, Louis de Merode and Charles S. Thomas
  • dealing with redundancies in government employment in Ghana, Peter Gregory
  • consequences of permanent layoff from the civil service - results from a survey of retrenched workers in Ghana, Harold Alderman, Sudharshan Canagarajah and Stephen D. Younger
  • conclusion - the political economy of civil service pay and employment reform, Barbara Nunberg and David L. Lindauer.

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