Rehabilitating government : pay and employment reform in Africa

This volume extends the literature on civil service pay and employment by building on first generation studies that identified problems and by introducing a second generation of work that offers prescriptions based on better information, deeper analysis, and more extensive experience with reform imp...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Lindauer, David L, ed, Nunberg, Barbara, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1994
Series:World Bank regional and sectoral studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: pay and employment reform of the civil service / David L. Lindauer and Barbara Nunberg
  • Pt. 1. Diagnosing the problem: 2. Government pay and employment policies and economic performance / David L. Lindauer
  • 3. Diagnosis with limited information: government pay and employment reform in Somalia / Peter Gregory
  • 4. Public expenditure and civil service reform in Tanzania / Mike Stevens
  • 5. Recognizing labor market constraints: government-donor competition for manpower in Mozambique / Peter R. Fallon and Luiz A. Pereira da Silva
  • 6. Preparing for civil service pay and employment reform: a primer / Mike Stevens
  • Pt. 2. Attempts at reform: 7. Experience with civil service pay and employment reform: an overview / Barbara Nunberg
  • 8. Implementing civil service pay and employment reform in Africa: the experiences of Ghana, the Gambia, and Guinea / Louis de Merode with Charles S. Thomas
  • 9. Dealing with redundancies in government employment in Ghana / Peter Gregory
  • 10. 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
  • 11. Conclusion: teh political economy of civil service pay and employment reform / Barbara Nunberg and David L. Lindauer