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...

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. It discusses...

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 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 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 paper addresses some fundamental questions concerning the nature of knowledge about public management reform, and particularly its transferability between countries and contexts. It's main point will be that knowledge of what works and what does not tends to be heavily...

This text is an account of the public management reform episode. It applies a narrative structure (BARZELAY et al, 2001) to establish the chain of events that need to be explained. The narrative is organized around key events within the episode and related to its occurrence.Abstract: Las...

This document is part of a series of papers commissioned by the IDB for the first meeting of the Regional Policy Dialogue of Public Management and Transparency that will take place at the IDB headquarters in Washington on April 26 and 27, 2001. The purpose of this paper is the analysis of 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...