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Public governance indicators: a literature review
Article / Working Paper, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThis paper provides an overview of public governance indicators, briefly discussing their pros and cons. It also evaluates existing methodologies such as data collection, sampling, aggregation methods, and applicability of results. The author argues that any discussion of governance should integrate the private sector more closely as a partner. Transforming new factors such as the information age...
Review of progress in international and national mutual accountability and transparency on development cooperation
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Other UN AgencyOne key thematic focus area for the UN Development Cooperation Forum (DCF) in assessment of trends in development cooperation is reinforcing mutual accountability (MA). This review focuses on the mechanisms and processes in which stakeholders hold one another mutually accountable for aid effectiveness. It stresses the need for program countries and other stakeholders to be...
Comparative Study of Contents of Civil Service Statutes
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Governance and Gender, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThis is the fifth working paper in the Document Series of the Department for Government, Labour Law and Administration (GLLAD), and represents the first to focus on issues of concern in the field of labour law formulation and revision. It responds to the 2000-01 Programme and Budget work item – and operational objective (No. 4cb) of strengthening the partners to social dialogue –...
Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance in the Public Sector in Switzerland
Article / Working Paper, Europe and CIS, Human Rights, Political Parties, Public Administration, Other UN AgencyThe paper begins with a description of the ethnic structures and cleavages in Switzerland and their development. It then provides an overview of the Swiss political system and its institutional elements of political integration. Finally, the scope and limits of these arrangements are discussed through an analysis of their effects on minority representation and equality. Switzerland is one of...
Study Exposes Poor Chinese Government Transparency
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Other UN AgencyMore than half of China's city and provincial governments surveyed have failed open-information requirements, while only two out of 43 organs under China's cabinet managed to pass marginally, a report has found. A leading expert on public administration cautioned that enhancing government transparency remains an arduous task, and strictly abiding by the existing regulations on the...