SARFATI, Hedva

La coopération dans le domaine de la gestion du personnel : enjeux et écueils - Paris : IIAP, avril/juin 1989

Structural adjustment policies very often provide for a contraction of the public sector through measures for modernizing and rationalizing the civil service. An increasing number of developing countries are turning to BIT for assistance in implementing these measures. From the very outset, schemes for reforming the civil service, still few and far between, run slap into difficulty of marking out clearly the boundaries of the public sector, and, a fortiori, of the civil service. The schemes also have to take into account issues such as the government's degree of attachment to the policy of reform, the institutional context, the level of training of officials responsible for staff management and, finally, the difficulty of forming an established team of officials responsible for the implementation of a reform programme