Public administration

Austerity drives are leading governments to reduce operational cuts through the wage bill and staffing levels.

This book provides a comparative look at financial management systems from a family of systems point of view.

This report focuses on international practices of ex post evaluation, and particularly on the current efforts to conduct ex post evaluation of laws in Chile.

Este informe evalua y analiza la evaluacion la ley en Chile y hace algunas recomendaciones relacionadas con las cuestiones institucionales, metodologicos y de gobierno.

This report provides policymakers, legislators, businesses, civil society organisations and other stakeholders with an assessment of the legal and institutional environment in which civil society operates, together with recommendations for reform designed to enable civil society organisations, business associations, trade unions and the media to play a more active role in the fight against corruption.

When trying to measure fiscal decentralisation, the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Government Levels has made significant progress in the last years, especially on tax autonomy of sub-central governments.

This study focuses on the identification and quantification of the proceeds of active bribery in international business transactions.

This report addresses multilevel governance challenges in water policy in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) and identifies good practices for co-ordinating water across ministries, between levels of government, and across local and regional actors.

This report diagnoses the main governance and financing challenges to private sector participation in the water supply and wastewater sector of Tunisia, and provides ways forward to address these challenges.

To further benefit from trade liberalisation, developed and developing countries must get their policies right, in trade and other spheres, such as the web of domestic regulations that affect commerce within and between countries.

The OECD Review of Regulatory Reform in Indonesia focuses on the administrative and institutional arrangements for ensuring that regulations are effective and efficient.

This book presents a comprehensive review of governance and public management in Slovenia.

This study examines the Spanish Information Society strategy plan Avanza 2.

Ce livre presente les resultats d'un exercice d'inventaire de l'integrite des entreprises et politiques anti-corruption pour 20 pays en Afrique.

This book features the results of a stocktaking exercise of business integrity and anti-bribery policies for 20 countries in Africa.

OECD governments are facing unprecedented challenges in the markets for government securities as a result of continued strong borrowing amid a highly uncertain environment with growing concerns about the pace of recovery, surging borrowing costs, sovereign risk and contagion pressures.

The role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the Middle East and North African economies (MENA) has historically been and remains significant in terms of their contribution to the economic value added, employment and the provision of vital services.

Le prsent rapport porte sur des approches novatrices de la prestation des services publics fondes sur des partenariats que les pouvoirs publics forment avec les citoyens, les usagers et les organisations de la socit civile.

Ce rapport encourage les administrations publiques a voir grand quant a leur politique reglementaire et evalue les efforts recents des pays de l'OCDE a developper et a approfondir la politique et la gouvernance reglementaires.

The reform programme called "e;General Review of Public Policies"e; (Revision Generale des Politiques Publiques, RGPP), implemented at central government level in France in 2007, is a novel approach for OECD countries by its mode of governance, directly and continuously involving the highest state officials in France.

This report assesses the Slovenian public sector salary system.

Now more than ever, OECD countries are investing significant resources in regulatory policies and reforms.

As financial markets put more and more pressure on governments to reduce their deficits and debts, sub-central levels of government are a key player in the implementation of national strategies.

Public Servants as Partners for Growth:Toward a Stronger, Leaner and More Equitable Workforce compiles the main policy lessons of the work of the Public Employment and Management Network of the Public Governance Committee on reallocation of the public workforce, managing competencies, and fostering diversity.

Major budgeting reforms have been initiated in a number of OECD countries in recent years.

This report presents the results of an assessment of the organisation of the central government of Denmark.

This report presents the results of the second thematic peer review based on the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.

Government leaders need high-quality and responsive advice to make informed decisions, particularly to help restore long-term economic growth.

This book describes and examines reforms of fiscal federalism and local government in 10 OECD countries implemented over the past decade.

This report enhances the transparency, accountability and public visibility of the Guidelines for MNEs, one of the OECD's most successful instruments, and more particularly the major improvements brought about by the 2011 Update, andhighlights the outcome of the 2011 Corporate Responsibility Roundtable, a multi-stakholder brainstorming on the launch of the work of the updated Guidelines.

In 2005, OECD published a stocktaking of the corporate governance framework in the Organisation's member countries.

Brazil's agenda to enhance integrity and prevent corruption is particularly critical in order to address a number of challenges facing the country's public administration.

This report looks at the institutional framework of corporate governance in China through the prism of the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and is a product of the ongoing OECD-China Policy Dialogue on Corporate Governance.

This report analyses the partnerships that governments form with citizens, users and CSOs in order to innovate and deliver improved public service outcomes.

This report aims to foster a better understanding on how to leverage the economic and social impacts of the implementation of the Internet into mobile devices to enable ubiquitous governments, sustain public sector innovation and transform public service delivery.

Over the last two decades, the countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) have undergone significant political and economic reforms.

Regulations are indispensable to the proper functioning of economies and societies.

This public governance review of Mexico examines the regulatory framework in Mexico, explains how e-government could be used to find new approaches to old challenges, and looks at the challenge of professionalising public servants in Mexico.

This report reflects long-term, in-depth discussion and debate by participants in the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance.

This book presents a comprehensive view of Internet intermediaries, their economic and social function, development and prospects, benefits and costs, and roles and responsibilities.

Recent global shocks, such as the 2008 financial crisis, have driven policy makers and industry strategists to re-examine how to prepare for and respond to events that can begin locally and propagate around the world with devastating effects on society and the economy.

While the utopian vision set by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals is certainly one worth striving for, it is no secret that many academics, practitioners and world leaders alike have struggled to navigate the intrinsic complexities of the SDGs and put them into practice.

This publication examines how effectively boards manage to align executive and board remuneration with the longer-term interests of their companies.

This report presents an overview of country initiatives concerning efficient, effective public services and open and innovative government.

Les scandales et faillites qui ont ebranle le monde des entreprises, conjugues a des preoccupations economiques plus larges, ont incite les pays de l'OCDE a accorder une attention plus soutenue au gouvernement d'entreprise, desormais reconnu comme un element fondamental de la croissance economique et de la stabilite financiere.

This report addresses an issue which arises in virtually every public utility industry - the regulation of access to essential facilities.

Ce rapport aborde une question qui se pose dans pratiquement tous les secteurs de services aux collectivits, savoir la rglementation de l'accs des installations essentielles.

C'est en dcembre 1997 que l'Islande a sign, en compagnie de trente-trois autres pays, la Convention sur la lutte contre la corruption d'agents publics trangers dans les transactions commerciales internationales (la Convention de l'OCDE).

C'est en dcembre 1997 que la Finlande a sign, en compagnie de trente-trois autres pays, la Convention sur la lutte contre la corruption d'agents publics trangers dans les transactions commerciales internationales (la Convention de l'OCDE).