In this moment of crisis, South Africa urgently needs decisive action. But all too often South Africans of all political stripes seem trapped in stale discourses.
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Research around the world shows a consistent pattern of failures in public sector policy and project implementation. Yet we continue to embark upon implementation built on bias and faulty logic.
The Trump administration is preparing to shift billions in veterans’ health care spending to private providers. Research suggests privatizing essential services comes with a social cost.
An inexperienced senior executive may defer to inappropriate sources for advice, treating technical disagreements as personality conflicts or interference.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
The government must try harder if it wants to ensure recruitment and retention in the profession.
Public sector corruption is a major challenge to doing business in Africa and players are mostly ill-equipped to deal with it. Business schools can teach the skills to tackle it.
An overhaul of the probation system has left the justice system foundering.
A deep dive into public sector earnings data since 2005 and how it compares to private sector pay.
There are other ways to make savings that don’t ride rough shod over firefighters’ contracts.
Labor says that public sector infrastructure investment has fallen 20% under the Abbott-Turnbull government. Is that right?
Rising membership of public sector unions and the growing political influence of these unions have led to government workers earning a premium over their private sector counterparts.
The picture is more complex than George Osborne lets on.
If the FTSE 100 can do it, then the public sector can also wake up to the benefits of female representation.
To address corruption in the South African health sector, a combination of political will with an effective government, citizen involvement and advocacy is needed.
Government’s new legislation will strike at the heart of union power.
“Nudge” economics have been embraced by policy makers. But how does it fare against more traditional ways of altering behaviour?
Joe Hockey’s second budget has two large deficits: the fiscal one, plus the lack of a coherent and creative plan for Australia. The Abbott government failed to ‘have a go’ at building the future.
The problems currently crippling the NHS and social care are not happening in a vacuum. The A&E crisis and the critical lack of beds are related to politicians’ love for large-scale, rapid and untested…
By 2017, some 16,500 public servants will have lost their jobs, or have been shuffled into other positions within the public service, in the government’s ongoing drive for budget savings. The long-standing…
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