Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

ISBN 10: 0815736975 / ISBN 13: 9780815736974

Verlag: Brookings Institution Press, 2020

pp. 280. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 381071748

Inhaltsangabe:

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive
Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have obscured efforts by many countries in the region to reform their public sectors. Unwieldy, unresponsive—and often corrupt—governments across the region have faced new pressure, not least from their publics, to improve the quality of public services and open up their decisionmaking processes. Some of these reform efforts were under way and at least partly successful before the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2010. Reform efforts have continued in some countries despite the many upheavals since then.
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of a wide range of reform efforts in nine countries. In six cases the reforms targeted core systems of government: Jordan's restructuring of cabinet operations, the Palestinian Authority's revision of public financial management, Morocco's voluntary retirement program, human resource management reforms in Lebanon, an e-governance initiative in Dubai, and attempts to improve transparency in Tunisia. Five other reform efforts tackled line departments of government, among them Egypt's attempt to improve tax collection and Saudi Arabia's work to improve service delivery and bill collection.
Some of these reform efforts were more successful than others. This book examines both the good and the bad, looking not only at what each reform accomplished but at how it was implemented. The result is a series of useful lessons on how public sector reforms can be adopted in MENA.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Robert P. Beschel Jr. is the head of the World Bank's Center of Government Practice. Previously, he served as director for policy in the Office of the Prime Minister in Kuwait.

Tarik M. Yousef was a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, and was director of the Brookings Doha Center. His professional career has spanned the academic world at Georgetown University and the Harvard Kennedy School; the public policy arena at the IMF, the World Bank, and the U.N.; and more recently the NGO space at Silatech. He has served on the advisory boards of development organizations and boards of directors of financial institutions

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Titel: Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and ...
Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New