The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies

2013-01-25
 |  Business & Economics
The Challenge of Public Pension Reform in Advanced and Emerging Economies

Author: Mr. Benedict J. Clements

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

ISBN: 9781475566314

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 86

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Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population ages. In emerging market economies, the challenges are often different. Where pension coverage is extensive, the issues are similar to those in advanced economies. Where pension coverage is low, the key challenge will be to expand coverage in a fiscally sustainable manner. This volume examines the outlook for public pension spending over the coming decades and the options for reform in 52 advanced and emerging market economies.

Transforming Government Organizations

2016-04-01
 |  Business & Economics
Transforming Government Organizations

Author: Ronald R. Sims

Publisher: IAP

ISBN: 9781681234571

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 423

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In 2010 IAP released Change (Transformation) in Government Organizations, edited by Ronald R. Sims. This well-received volume described how organizational change methods can be used effectively to make government organizations more effective and efficient and better equipped to serve a demanding citizenry. The 2010 book brought together contributions by managers, practitioners, academics, and consultants in the study of international, federal, state, and local government efforts to respond to increased calls for change (transformation) in public sector organizations. Since the release of the 2010 volume, calls for government transformation have continued and intensified, and a number of fresh ideas and examples have been generated from the field. The time is now ripe for a follow-up volume laying out innovative, successful ideas for transforming government. Transforming Government Organizations: Fresh Ideas and Examples from the Field is that follow-up volume. A collection of fresh contributions such as those included in this book will add to the growing knowledge base of what does—and what does not—work when transformation efforts are attempted in government organizations. The contributors to this new volume are experts with extensive experience as change agents in government and other organizations. They provide analyses and discussions of specific cases and issues as well as practical tools, ideas, and lessons learned intended to guide those responsible for similar efforts in the years to come. The audience for the book are government managers, scholars, and others interested in undertaking or learning about such efforts.

Monthly Labor Review

1988
 |  Labor
Monthly Labor Review

Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Publisher:

ISBN: MINN:31951D00245425W

Category: Labor

Page: 628

View: 610

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Monthly Labor Review

1988-07
 |  Labor laws and legislation
Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UCBK:C022328715

Category: Labor laws and legislation

Page: 626

View: 149

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Handbook of Public Personnel Administration

1994-09-29
 |  Political Science
Handbook of Public Personnel Administration

Author: Jack Rabin

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 0824792319

Category: Political Science

Page: 754

View: 409

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Offers in-depth analyses spanning the entire field of public personnel administration--from a history of the American civil service as characterized by competing perspectives to the contemporary application of total quality management by human resources practitioners. Addresses the major laws that regulate worker compensation.

Effective Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Agencies

1995
 |  Business & Economics
Effective Financial Management in Public and Nonprofit Agencies

Author: Jerome B. McKinney

Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

ISBN: 0899309259

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 564

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In this new and updated edition, new chapters place a special emphasis on "ceiling and target base budget estimating," ratio analysis, TQM, and internal control cost systems. Accountability is given a fresh approach, as it deals with the complicated issues of today's nonprofit organizations.

Finances Publiques Et Emploi Public

1982
 |  Finance, Public
Finances Publiques Et Emploi Public

Author: International Institute of Public Finance

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015008457809

Category: Finance, Public

Page: 370

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Papers include: R.H. Haveman and V. Halberstadt "Public finance and public employment: an introduction"; "Public sector employment trends in western industrialized economies" by J.P. Martin; "Public employment in developing countries: evidence from Latin America" by F. Rezende and J. Cezar Castanhar.

Privatising Public Prisons

2015-03-26
 |  Law
Privatising Public Prisons

Author: Amy Ludlow

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781782255925

Category: Law

Page: 224

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Successive UK governments have pursued ambitious programmes of private sector competition in public services that they promise will deliver cheaper, higher quality services, but not at the expense of public sector workers. The public procurement rules (most significantly Directive 2004/18/EC) often provide the legal framework within which the Government must deliver on its promises. This book goes behind the operation of these rules and explores their interaction with the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE); regulations that were intended to offer workers protection when their employer is restructuring his business. The practical effectiveness of both sources of regulation is critiqued from a social protection perspective by reference to empirical findings from a case study of the competitive tendering exercise for management of HMP Birmingham that was held by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) between 2009 and 2011. Overall, the book challenges the Government's portrayal of competition policies as self-evident sources of improvement for public services. It highlights the damage that can be caused by competitive processes to social capital and the organisational, cultural and employment strengths of public services. Its main conclusions are that prison privatisation processes are driven by procedure rather than aims and outcomes and that the complexity of the public procurement rules, coupled with inadequate commissioning expertise and organisational planning, can result in the production of contracts that lack aspiration and are insufficiently focused upon improvement or social sustainability. In sum, the book casts doubt upon the desirability and suitability of using competition as a policy mechanism to improve public services.

Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work

2009
 |  Business & Economics
Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work

Author: International Labour Office

Publisher: International Labour Organization

ISBN: 9221206548

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 266

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This report has three aims: reviewing the ILO's progress in assisting constituents to achieve gender equality in the world of work; highlighting its current efforts to implement International Labour Conference (ILC) resolutions and Governing Body decisions on promoting gender equality and mainstreaming it in the Decent Work Agenda; and providing background for constituents to chart a strategic course for future work.