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The Quality of Governance: “Second-Generation” Civil Service Reform in Africa
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International Monetary Fund
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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 1998: Issue 164
Language:
English
Publication Date:
01 Nov 1998
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451980240.001
ISBN:
9781451980240
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
40
Keywords:
WP; private sector; wage bill; profit profile; bill adjustment; market wage rate; wage compression; public sector; human capital; migration; growth; government wage structure; brain drain; workers wage; wage rate; Wages; Public sector wages; Real wages; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
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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.
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