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The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty – a two-way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn’t function honestly even if it wanted to.
Ideally, heads of state will have teams of dedicated public servants to ensure that political decisions are made with a full understanding of their context and consequences.
Europe’s academics, senior civil servants, business executives, and trade unionists must work together to build a project that expresses a new frontier for Europe.
It is one of the ironies of the last decade that at the end of it west European troops and civil servants are actually more present in Bosnia and Kosovo than they are in Bohemia or Silesia.
(To be clear, I also know many Fed officials who are outstanding public servants).
Instead, public servants now appear to be in cahoots with Wall Street to engineer an artificial aura of profitability.
More than 80% of Russians, according to a poll conducted last summer, believe that “many civil servants practically defy the law.”
French civil servants must recognize that equality – that cardinal French value – does not mean uniformity, but rather more adaptability and decentralization.
Add to these the fact that many Guatemalan judges have functioned as agents of impunity rather than as servants of justice and a legal system that can be manipulated by the defense through a series of frivolous lawsuits.
The number of Gazan workers in Israel was reduced to a few hundred, and rising unemployment and poverty empowered armed factions, gangs, and warlords – a development that intensified after Hamas’s electoral victory in 2006, which resulted in an international siege that cut off public servants’ salaries overnight.
Just hours before Thaksin returned to Bangkok, Thailand’s Election Commission convicted the speaker of the parliament’s lower house of fraud after he paid civil servants to campaign on behalf of the party.
The reputation of India’s Election Commission (EC) – which has a decades-long record of conducting free and fair elections, despite comprising largely retired civil servants appointed by the government for fixed tenures – also took a severe blow last year.
Suppose the more productive farmers have no desire for washing machines or cars, but instead employ the 50 surplus workers either as low-paid domestic servants or higher-paid artists, providing face-to-face and difficult-to-automate services.
Clumsy intergovernmental processes risk blurring priorities, confusing policymakers, and exhausting civil servants.
Suddenly, politicians, civil servants, and their cronies were embezzling even that benefit.
When the protest leaders’ grievances expanded to include the 2012 budget’s lavish provisions for the president and top civil servants, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s shady deals, and government corruption, Jonathan realized that he had to back down.
The elevation of these two outstanding civil servants comes after a period when other professors have been squeezed out by the political process.
At the same time, Putin is attempting to boost Russia’s appeal by doubling Crimeans’ pensions, boosting the salaries of the region’s 200,000 civil servants, and constructing large, Sochi-style infrastructure, including a $3 billion bridge across the Kerch Strait.
Brazil’s government currently spends roughly the same amount on 950,000 retired public servants that it spends on 28 million retired private-sector workers, meaning that the bigger problem is also the one that will be less politically difficult to address.
Strides have already been made in a number of areas, from electronic voter registration to electronic payments for civil servants.
In that elder generation, many had pursued military careers, and many of their aides and collaborators were engineers and civil servants.
In Western countries, politicians and civil servants are expected to be relatively poor.
The famine is also the outcome of Saudi actions: blockades, import restrictions, and other measures, including withholding the salaries of about a million civil servants.
Never in Hong Kong's history has popular opposition--uniting investment bankers, street hawkers, off-duty civil servants, and artists, among others--been so loud.
China's leaders, and their handpicked servants in Hong Kong may still believe that Tung's popularity will revive if and when the economy does.
Is it true that official Sweden is steeped in feminist ideology, and that Swedish public servants are taught that women never lie?
Several were distinguished former public servants who had been involved with some of the committees in question, and they brought a valuable perspective to the issue, one based on their personal experience.
The less money the state has, the lower the salaries of civil servants and the value of pensions.
So the real issue is not whether we humans are servants of our genes, but rather our infatuation with the idea that our behavior could so easily be explained and predicted.
Adolescents sent to sea by the Marine Society to be officer’s servants were half a foot (15 centimeters) shorter than the sons of the gentry.
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