All petitions etc are swiftly dealt with (even murder charges are
dealt with, within a year).
Moreover, Singapore govt provides scholarships for students at the
Junior College to study in LSE, Harvard, Stanford, in return for them
to come back and serve the govt as a highly placed official
Has anybody read this book [1]? Can you do a review here, please?
Udhay
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Governance-Sclerosis-That-Has-Set/dp/8129105241
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2271578,00.html
Inky fingers
Red and green should never be seen
Marc Abrahams
Tuesday April
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anybody read this book [1]? Can you do a review here, please?
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an excellent job of
On 14-Apr-08, at 5:31 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
I read it three years ago, and wrote a couple of paras on it in an
old piece
I wrote for WSJ [1]. From what I remember, the book does an
excellent job of
demonstrating how government works, with much first-person narrative
of the
problems Shourie
There is usually a strong willed bureaucrat behind the scenes** making
this possible.
That's the point. The system needs strong-willed bureaucrats for anything to
work, and getting one is a matter of luck. It is otherwise designed for
inefficiency, with all the incentives aligned towards
work, and getting one is a matter of luck. It is otherwise designed for
inefficiency, with all the incentives aligned towards government servants
growing their own own power and budgets, instead of serving the people as
intended by their job descriptions. Parkinson's Law etc...
This seems
On 4/14/08, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you design a bureaucracy that works? I've heard a lot of good
things about Singaporean civil servants. Is the reputation justified? I
believe they are very well paid..presumably that's one thing which sets
them apart.
I think
There's an interesting piece on good governance here:
http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~drodrik/Thinking%20about%20governance.doc
A deep insight that has emerged out of the disappointments of the
Washington Consensus is that successful policy reform is at its core
governance reform. Reforms in
