Civil Service Reform : Strengthening World Bank and IMF Collaboration
This report sets out the principal aspects of civil service reform that were discussed at a workshop for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund staff on September 2, 2001. The objective of the workshop was to strengthen collaboration betwee...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/06/1981822/civil-service-reform-strengthening-world-bank-imf-collaboration http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15242 |
| Summary: | This report sets out the principal
aspects of civil service reform that were discussed at a
workshop for the World Bank and International Monetary Fund
staff on September 2, 2001. The objective of the workshop
was to strengthen collaboration between the Bank and the
Fund in order to achieve greater effectiveness in Bank- and
Fund-supported programs in this area. The workshop concluded
that strengthened collaboration between the Bank and the
Fund should ensure consistency between the
sometimes-conflicting goals of short-term fiscal discipline
and longer-term structural reforms supported by Fund and
Bank programs. After the introduction, section 2 presents an
overview of the major objectives of civil service reform,
highlighting some of the core macrofiscal and structural
perspectives. Section 3 follows, and highlights recent Bank-
and Fund-supported programs that address civil service
reform. Section 4 considers the effectiveness of Bank and
Fund interventions, noting the intrinsic tensions between
reform objectives and the politically challenging nature of
civil service reforms. Section 5 considers how the two
organizations have worked, both individually and in tandem.
This section also offers conclusions and proposals for
improving the effectiveness of Bank-Fund interventions in
civil service reform. |
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