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Yandex’s ads are gone, but those signs are, unfortunately, still there – not just in the metro, but in many other places where public servants do not want to talk to the public – police stations, ticket offices, and public buildings of many kinds.
Hong Kong ’s civil servants are already the best paid in the world.
Moreover, our civil servants embrace problem solving, demonstrating a level of resourcefulness that has produced many localized solutions to human development challenges such as ensuring food security and adequate supplies of clean water and housing.
The approach is two-pronged: the government is privatizing some SOEs, so that market competition can check the behavior of corporate managers, while treating the managers of other (typically larger) SOEs as public servants, subject to the increasingly severe rules of public accountability, including party discipline.
She has managed to escape the extreme-right ghetto, with a grand strategy, shaped by her ally Florian Philippot, that aims to broaden the Front’s appeal to key groups that previously avoided it, especially civil servants, women, and Catholics.
The common opinion among British colonial civil servants, businessmen, and diplomats was that the Chinese were not really interested in politics anyway; all they cared about was money.
The main reason might be the poor fortunes of social-democratic parties, which now head only eight governments in the EU, despite their efforts since 2000 to minimize their waning influence within their traditional electorate – blue-collar workers and white-collar public-sector employees, middle managers, and civil servants.
This non-stop pampering is aggravated by female domestic servants, ranging from the high society governess to the part-time maid of a middle-class family.
Now, it is up to the courts to discern the truth about corruption among Turkey’s so-called “public servants.”
Individual citizens should be free to live according to their beliefs; but an unaccountable theological vision must not be allowed to shape their behavior as civil servants and bureaucrats.
And the day’s plutocrats are seen as having sway over elected politicians and civil servants.
Water ministries are typically staffed with engineers and generalist civil servants.
The power to tax, for example, is often used more to employ civil servants or workers in favored companies than to provide services the people want.
I do not think so, and to argue as much devalues the efforts of many overworked and underpaid public servants around the world.
It knows that the bureaucratic apparatus remains outrageously large, and that civil servants retain numerous expensive perks - cars, dachas, medical services, and more - while most ordinary Russians scrape by on meager wages and vegetable gardens.
Furthermore, foreign investors do not want to deal with diplomats or civil servants.
If the Commission fails to act, the EU will look even more like a playground for French public servants.
Civil servants have been prodded to wear customary khaki uniforms, and women encouraged to don traditional dresses.
But even in France, where the best and the brightest become bureaucrats, the civil servants are continuously caught taking bribes.
While a relatively small business, military, and political elite misgoverned Thailand – often cynically, and sometimes incompetently – others in Asia, with more selfless and competent public servants, succeeded in finding their competitive niche in the modern world.
London in the 1830’s was a city in which a third of women were servants and another third were prostitutes.
Countries, with more independent and professional civil servants tend to have higher quality bureaucracies and less corruption.
In such cases, the oligarchs in question are clearly acting as loyal servants to Putin’s regime.
Dissolving this lucrative conglomeration at a time when the economy has little else to offer multitudes of civil servants and workers – unemployment currently stands at almost 28% – will be difficult and unpopular.
To improve matters, we need to increase dialogue and communication among journalists and those they write about: politicians, civil servants, business people, and religious leaders – in short, the voices of civil society.
In the past, corruption was usually said to be located within the ranks of public servants, and this was used as a partial justification for privatization, especially in developing countries.
Civil servants – chinovniks – were the declared enemy, and concern that the bureaucracy would prevent the revolution from being fully realized fueled radicalization, and reinforced the idea that a revolutionary party must supplant the state altogether.
The PiS government’s decision to cut the pensions of communist-era civil servants has resurrected the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), which now enjoys around 7-10% support.
The only political space left for fascism was the petit bourgeoisie: shopkeepers, small businessmen, and low-level civil servants.
For example, South Africa’s international negotiators – executive ministers and senior civil servants – can compromise on just about anything, because they are not truly accountable to their population through the parliament.
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