A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lienert, Ian; Modi, Jitendra

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“…Governments had difficulty retaining competent technical and professional staff: they often had low wages, low skills, were demotivated, and took bribes and misused government property. Following over a decade of successive civil service reform programmes, particularly within SAPs, downsizing the civil service often reduced its quality in areas such as: capacity-building to improve efficiency and productivity, effective recruitment and promotion procedures, explicit performance standards, and proper application of administrative sanctions (Adamolekun, 1993;Lienert, 1998;Lienert and Modi, 1997). This has weakened service delivery, government institutions and economic performance Associated government accounting reforms across Africa have been disappointing (Andrews, 2010;de Renzio and Dorotinsky, 2007;Leonard, 1987;Lienert and Sarraf, 2001;Wehner and de Renzio, 2013).…”

Section: Government Accounting In Africamentioning

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Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: The political economy of neocolonialism

Lassou

Hopper

2016

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

170

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Section: Government Accounting In Africamentioning

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Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: The political economy of neocolonialism

Lassou

Hopper

2016

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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“…This may be an area for further exploration. Source: (Lienert and Modi 1997) 9 Colonial rule in the labour reserves was generally of the "direct rule" type asw opposed to "indirect rule" in which the colonial powers extensively used traditional authorities for the implementation of some of their policies.. Thus using the data in Matthew Lange's study (Lange 2004.…”

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On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa

Mkandawire

2010

Journal of Development Studies

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One commonly observed phenomena about taxation in Africa are regional differences and the fact that southern African countries have higher levels of shares of taxation in GDP. This article argues that the major source of differences in 'tax effort' is the colonial histories of various countries. Using standard measures of 'tax effort in a panel data framework and dividing colonial Africa along forms of incorporation into the colonial system, it shows that African countries and others with similar colonial histories have higher levels of 'tax effort'. However, the difference disappears when we control for the colonial factor. These results hold under different model specifications.

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“…Nous nous attellerons par la suite dans la deuxieme partie a l'examen de l'une des strategies possiblesen l'occurence, l'approche nb-institutionnelle, A travers le prisme de la theorie des contrats3 -de lutte contre la corruption au Cameroun, notamment dans les services publics. A cet kgard, pour Lienert et Modi (1997)' cette baisse n'est -si l'on ose dire -que de 40 % ii la fin de 1993. Quoiqu'il en soit, la diminution de la masse salariale a des incidences immkdiates aussi bien sur le bien-Ctre des fonctionnaires que sur l'kquilibre des finances publiques (tableau 1).…”

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“…Etant donne que les administrations africaines en gknkral, et camerounaises en particulier, sont considkrkes par le FMI et la Banque mondiale comme ktant en sureffectifs (Lienert et Modi 1997), le differentiel entre le volume d'emplois publics L G et celui d'efficience L* est necessairement positif de ce point de vue, soit :…”

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L'analyse économique de la corruption au Cameroun

Assiga-Ateba¹

2001

Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'étud

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View related articles L'analyse kconomique de la corruption au Cameroun Le Cameroun est dksormais dkpeint comme le pays le plus corrompu au monde. Mais audelrt de la polkmique suscitke par le classement de I'ONG Transparency International, il est indkniable que la corruption, aussi bien la grande que la petite, s'est particuli2rement exacerbke dans l'ensemble des administrations publiques depuis la mise en czuvre des politiques kconomiques inspirkes par les institutionsfinancihes rnultilatkrales. L'objet de cet article est de montrer que la politique d'ajustement budgktaire, dont le corollaire est la baisse drastique des salaires, est un dkterminant significatif du dkveloppement de la petite corruption dans les services publics au Cameroun. Db lors, pour enrayer Vexpansion explosive de ce phkomtne, il conviendrait de mettre en czuvre une politique contractuelle incitative, qui a le mkite de promouvoir le capital social, facteur de croissance au Cameroun. ABSTRACTCameroon is regarded as the most corrupt country in the world, but beyond thepolernic provoked by this classification by the NGO Transparency International corruption in all its aspects has undeniably become even worse in the public service since the implementation of economic policies inspired by multilateral financial institutions. This article demonstrates that budgetary adjustment policy is a key determinant in the expansion of petty corruption in Cameroon's public service. In order to eradicate the explosive expansion of this phenomenon, an incentive contract policy that would promote social capital, a growth factor of growth in Cameroon, should be implemented.

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A Decade of Civil Service Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 47 publications

References 6 publications

Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: The political economy of neocolonialism

Government accounting reform in an ex-French African colony: The political economy of neocolonialism

On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa

L'analyse économique de la corruption au Cameroun

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