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Public sector performance, prestige and promotion
Willmore, Larry - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Using cross-country data for 51 countries, including 23 in Africa, the author controls for differences in per capita income and measures the effect of structural variables on a number of outcomes, including the quality, integrity and prestige of public service. He finds merit-based recruitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111733
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Civil-service pension schemes around the world
Palacios, Robert; Whitehouse, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
There are separate pension schemes for civil servants (and often for other public-sector workers) in about half of the world’s countries, including some of the largest developing economies, such as Brazil, China and India. In the higher-income, OECD countries, spending on pensions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991284
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Meritocratic Aspects Concerning Civil Servant Career. Comparative Study In Central and Eastern European Countries
Matei, Ani; Popa, Florin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Central and Eastern Europe has known in the last 20 years profound changes. The shift from a dictatorial system to a democratic system forced the states from this area to adopt structural measures for all public institutions. In this context, the institution of “civil servant” could not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516575
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Instruments for Promotion and Assurance of Public Integrity
Matei, Ani; Popa, Florin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
corruption, indicators and transparency, blacklisting. In the third chapter, the audit instruments are aimed at the governmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472222
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Meritocratic Aspects Concerning Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector - A Case Study for Romania
Matei, Ani; Matei, Lucica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The current paper approaches the theoretical and practical fundamental issues concerning the use of meritocratic criteria in public performance evaluation. Based on papers dealing with the meritocratic approach for the creation and development of a civil service system or papers applying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533696
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Analiza unor aspecte legate de mobilitatea si politizarea functiei publice in administratia publica din Romania
Andrei, Tudorel; Profiroiu, Marius; Oancea, Bogdan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents a number of issues related to the mobility of civil servants and to the politicizing the civil service in Romania in the period 2000-2010. Analysis of the politicization phenomenon has allowed identification of three stages: 2000-2004, 2005-2008 and 2009-present. Application...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680312
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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States
Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018
corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910879
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Contraintes institutionnelles et règlementaires et le secteur informel à Djibouti
Mahamoud, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259001
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Why, for a Class of Bribes, the Act of Giving a Bribe should be Treated as Legal
Basu, Kaushik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper puts forward a small but novel idea of how we can cut down the incidence of bribery. There are different kinds of bribes and what this paper is concerned with are bribes that people often have to give to get what they are legally entitled to. I shall call these ― “harassment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259013
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Fighting African corruption when existing corruption-control levels matter in a dynamic cultural setting
Asongu, Simplice A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Purpose – This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press … characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom increases corruption-control (CC) in a … tradition improves CC. Originality/value – We complement the literature on the fight against corruption in Africa by employing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259054