The Mexican public sector has undergone a dramatic reorganization and professionalization since the initiation of economic crisis and reform in 1982. Though such reforms appear to have improved efficiency in the provision of public services, administrative changes did not include the...

This study develops a conceptual and analytical reference framework for the preparation of case studies on political determinants of the level of success of the reforms of the system of public-sector personnel in Latin America. Its main goal is to orient the empirical work toward the evaluation...

This study comprehensively examined institutional arrangements for the management of public employment and human resources in the central government agencies, how these arrangements work and the context of these arrangements. In other words, the study focused on the contexts, structures,...

This paper uses datasets from six surveys to describe entrepreneurship in Argentina. While the quantity of entrepreneurship in Argentina is high, its quality is low, given the high proportion of informal and necessity entrepreneurs. Income is found to play a greater role in determining...

The objective of this project is to contribute to the understanding of how technological changes influence public sector reforms, particularly, the theme of Civil Service and Technological Changes. This will be a step toward comparing, at the Latin American and Caribbean regional level, the...

The present work summarizes a set of reports which have had the aim of diagnosing the civil service systems of seventeen countries: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago,...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through its Regional Policy Dialogue, Public Policy and Management Network commissioned this study [update] of the Institutional Assessment of Civil Service systems (CSS) in Barbados. While reforms address key elements of the HRM system, the frameworks,...

The object of this document is to present an analytical framework that could serve as a common reference to assess national Civil Service (CS) systems in countries located within the Bank's scope of action. There are three goals of the document: 1) To facilitate the task of analysts of national...

Modernizers of the state have been busy during the past decade building new governance institutions and rehabilitating old ones in developing and emerging market countries.Abstract: La pasada década, los modernizadores del estado estuvieron bastante ocupados creando nuevas instituciones del...

This document is part of a series of studies commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue in Transparency and Public Policy, to be held in the Bank's Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the 26 and 27 of April, 2001. The paper has two...