The Quality of Governance: “Second-Generation” Civil Service Reform in Africa

November 1, 1998

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The Quality of Governance: “Second-Generation” Civil Service Reform in Africa, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper argues that the development of human capital in the public sector should be an important ingredient in any proposed set of “second-generation” reforms for Africa. In the post-colonial era the quality of governance has seriously declined, and the stock of human capital in the public sector has been eroded by a flight of human capital from many countries in response to compression of wages. The paper develops a simple theoretical framework to discuss these issues and the continent’s experience with foreign technical assistance in supplementing the low level of domestic human capital.

Subject: Economic sectors, Human capital, Labor, Public sector, Public sector wages, Real wages, Wages

Keywords: Africa, Bill adjustment, Brain drain, Government wage structure, Growth, Human capital, Market wage rate, Migration, Private sector, Profit profile, Public sector, Public sector wages, Real wages, Sub-Saharan Africa, Wage bill, Wage compression, Wage rate, Wages, Workers wage, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

40
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1998/164
Stock No:

WPIEA1641998
ISBN:

9781451980240
ISSN:

1018-5941

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