Public sector reform in Lesotho: Challenges‚ achievements and the way forward ABSTRACT THE GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO EMBARKED UPON A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM EXERCISE FROM THE EARLY 1990S (PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME-PSRIP). IT WAS DRIVEN BY THE REALISATION THAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAS BLOATED‚ INEFFICIENT WITH REGARD TO POOR SERVICE DELIVERY‚ WITH CORRUPTION CONSTITUTING A DRAIN ON BUDGET. THE INFLUENCE AND ‘PERSUASION’ OF THE WORLD BANK‚ THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Premium Public administration Civil service Government
Policy Analysis: Public Health Service Act Courtney Barker‚ April Carter‚ Keith Washburn Ohio University – Chillicothe Fall 2013 “Before Ronald Regan came to power‚ federal policy emphasized treatment and public education‚ assuming that these strategies would diminish demand” (Karger & Stoesz‚ 2013‚ p. 306). Substance addiction has been a growing problem ever since the late 1800’s when the addiction of cocaine‚ opium and heroin started. “Chinese
Premium Drug addiction Drug United States
Introduction Public sector management‚ was introduced in the UK during the era of Margaret Thatcher and in the US during President Ronald Regan’s term of office (1970s and 1980s). This transformation in the management of the public sector was adopted by many countries as a strategy for government as a means to solve problems that was existing in the delivery of public goods and services. The rigid‚ hierarchical‚ bureaucratize form of public administration was changed to a
Premium Public administration Government Management
healthcare. The public system is struggling‚ and there is a debate going on over whether or not private hospitals should be permitted. Universal healthcare is very cherished in Canada‚ but conservatives argue that introducing a private system will improve the burden on the public system. Those who oppose say that the creation of a two-tier system will result in one system that is better then the other‚ attracting the best doctors and the best equipment‚ and that those who can’t afford private or do not
Premium Health care Universal health care Health economics
the human services field would be impossible to fulfill. Human services is a vast sector that includes a broad range of disciplines‚ knowledge and skills focused toward enhancing human well- being‚ both individually and collectively. Just as there are many causes within the human services sector‚ so too are there a wide variety of organizations whose aim is to accomplish these goals. Three main organization types define the human services field nonprofit or NGO‚ governmental or public enterprise
Premium
INTRODUCTION 1. Public enterprises are neither new nor unique to India. In good old days‚ Kautilya in his ‘Arthasastra’ talked of a public sector. A person was made incharge of salt manufacture and fixing its price. Similarily there were people made responsible for mining‚ coinage and gold‚ all in public sector. Nowadays there is hardly any country that is not engaged actively and directly in the management of economic and industrial enterprises. Various names given to these enterprises are ‘Public Sector
Premium Capitalism Public sector Government
ROLE The role of discipline in the Public Services is shown well through Team Spirit. If one person in a team‚ squadron or troop is particularly negative through a task or operation‚ then it gets everybody else’s enthusiasm down and can affect the successfulness of the assignment. Also‚ being a negative input to discussions and jobs‚ can then also lead to a lot of resentfulness and dislike being opposed on that particular person. In training for the public services‚ they are taught to be positive and
Premium Police Ethics Constable
The allocation of design and construction responsibility to the private sector‚ combined with payments linked to the availability of a service‚ provides significant incentives for the private sector to deliver capital projects within shorter construction timeframes. Better risk allocation A core principle of any PPP is the allocation of risk to the party best able to manage it at least cost. The aim is to optimise rather than maximise risk transfer‚ to ensure that best value is achieved.
Premium Public–private partnership Investment Economics
The Public Prosecution Service v. William Elliot and Robert McKee is a case relating to fingerprint evidence that was ruled inadmissible due to unlawful means of evidence collection. This caused dispute over the validity of the inadmissibility submission by the defence counsel‚ however‚ I believe the fingerprint evidence was rightfully dismissed from the court. On October 6th 2007‚ William Elliot and Robert McKee were arrested for the theft of building materials on the premises of Aluminum & Plastic
Premium Law Jury Criminal law
Public vs Private Healthcare: the advantages and disadvantages of both As a first generation Canadian‚ due to the on-going debate about a possible public-private healthcare interface‚ I have become very familiar with the meaning of public vs private healthcare. In a socialist type government healthcare services are provided‚ funded and regulated by the government‚ which constitutes as a public healthcare system. On the other hand‚ entrepreneur-run (profit-based) clinics and hospitals that are
Premium Universal health care Medicine Health care