A new report has confirmed what many Indians have long suspected - their country's bureaucratic system is one of the most stifling in the world. The Hong Kong based group, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, surveyed more than 1, business executives in 12 Asian countries.
The poll suggested India had the worst levels of excessive red tape. Yet this seems not to have impeded performance - it has just released another set of strong growth figures. But for many foreign companies that success is despite rather than because of the system they face, the report says.
It provides answer to some of the most important questions on the appropriate level and distribution of employment in the public sector, the equity, transparency, and market competitiveness of public sector wages and their impact on service delivery and human capital outcomes. The WWBI provides fine-grain indicators in five categories: the demographics of the private and public sector workforces; public sector wage premiums; relative wages and pay compression ratios, gender pay gaps, and the public sector wage bill.
A few key indicators:. Data interactive. Interactive May 24, The president also miserably failed in his bid to reduce the number of civil servants by , One scenario would see more of these top-down attempts at streamlining continue. But taking all of the above into account, it seems likely that the process will remain on hold, especially with the elections fast approaching.
In the second scenario, the government would take up a strategy of genuine decentralization. In June, President Macron seemed to have learned the lessons of the crisis, apparently making a shift in policy. Taxpayers could compare cost-efficiency indicators, and fiscal accountability could help tame bureaucratic growth.
This would come with competition and emulation among jurisdictions. Various levels of government would have their missions more clearly delineated. Accomplishing this goal would require a complex institutional design and would be at odds with Mr. It would also hurt many vested interests. Resistance would be significant. A third scenario, not incompatible with the first two, relies on more rules for transparency and accountability. The detailed funding, costs and output of various bureaucracies would be made available to the public.
At all levels of governance, oversight bodies would have both the means and power to audit various government agencies. Currently, power and means are divided between commissions and audit offices respectively, which is of course an inefficient state of affairs. Audits would be made public, reducing the risk of collusion. Civil servants would no longer enjoy lifetime employment but would instead have ordinary job contracts.
They would need to resign before running for office, breaking the incestuous link between politics and administration. Unions would no longer receive financing from taxpayers, forcing them to take positions more in line with the public interest.
Given the current level of tension, this scenario is very unlikely. This would further weaken accountability and democracy in France and accelerate its economic decline. Two elements have just reinforced this scenario as the most likely. New Prime Minister Jean Castex who took office on July 3 is a classic product of the Central Administration —he will certainly not compromise its interests. In France, as in many other countries, bureaucracy begets bureaucracy.
Agencies and officials find ways to justify increasing their scope and power, and gain political influence — all to the detriment of the taxpayer source: dpa. General info Location. Report Scenarios. Political issues. Covid democracy Emmanuel Macron France taxes. In France, bureaucracy has ballooned out of control The Covid crisis offers an opportunity to rein it in Attempts to do so will meet with stiff resistance The Covid crisis has shed light on the dysfunctions of government bureaucracy.
Unrestrained expansion Since the Great Depression and the two world wars, government responsibility has grown to include public goods like education and healthcare , market regulation, welfare and pensions, as well as macroeconomic policy. Contents Unrestrained expansion Twisted incentives Democracy adrift Awkward decentralization Scenarios. More on subject. But his prescription for reform to boost business and employment appears too modest in the face of the many vested interests riding on the back of the Over-reacting would let Charlie Hebdo terrorists win The slaughter by radical Islamists in the Parisian offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper on January 7, has generated international condemnation and raised disturbing questions, writes Dr Emmanuel Martin.
The rules that determine procedures in the bureaucracy, whether formal or informal, are especially important for public perceptions of how the state operates. This paper presents our findings on the bureaucracy arena in 16 developing countries. Four observations stand out as especially important. The first is that bureaucracy is one of the more problematic arenas of governance in the countries in our study.
Hiring is rarely on merit, bureaucrats are seldom seen to be accountable, and the operations of the civil service often lack real transparency.
The second point is that the relationship between rules and structures, on the one hand, and performance, on the other, is difficult to establish. It is not that the link is unimportant.
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