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Indeed, it replicates American policy in the period following World War II, when the World Bank was founded to multilaterize development funds that were overwhelmingly coming from the US (a move that also helped to create a cadre of first-class international civil servants and development professionals).
But the starting point is challenging, because public servants currently earn three times more than private-sector workers.
The best start is to abolish typically communist organizations, such as branch ministries, to cut the state down to size and to deprive it of goods, such as licenses, which civil servants can sell illegally.
And we will have to rethink sociability as well, as artificial companions, holograms (or mere voices), 3D servants, or life-like sexbots provide attractive and possibly indistinguishable alternatives to human interaction.
In Brazil, the pension plan of private sector workers runs a small surplus, but that of civil servants runs an enormous deficit, equivalent to of 4.5% of Brazil's GDP.
The point sold well and civil servants found themselves isolated.
As the stark reality of Brexit sinks in, members of Britain’s cabinet and leading Brexiteers have increasingly turned on one another and attempted to cast blame on everyone but themselves: judges, civil servants, parliamentarians – even those who voted to remain in the EU.
Formerly, these operations could rely on the fact that employees were permanent civil servants (Beamte), a German anomaly.
While German permanent civil servants cannot be fired, nor are they allowed to strike.
With the privatization of Germany’s railway, which will shortly be concluded with its listing on the stock market, these civil servants will disappear.
Today, 40% of German train drivers are still permanent civil servants who have been leased from the state by the privatized railway.
The politicians, civil servants, and other participants at the Copenhagen summit have mainly been bombarding each other with numbers.
Top French civil servants of the kind that he has assembled traditionally share two characteristics: they are overly cautious and they have a poor understanding of macroeconomic strategy.
Finding the government’s draft bill insufficiently strong, he demanded provisions that would give the Lokpal complete autonomy, an extensive presence in all government departments, and authority over all government servants, up to and including the prime minister himself.
Chirac is alleged to have employed municipal civil servants when he was the mayor of Paris, 20 years ago, as aides in his electoral campaign.
Let’s hope that Americans really are smarter than the greedy corporate CEOs and their cynical Republican servants believe.
Shaping up the public sector is an obvious goal, but civil servants are adamantly opposed to what would in effect mean new and much less attractive work contracts.
Surely, for example, there is a price tag that can be attached to breaking civil servants’ existing work contracts.
If a fair one-time payment is offered, it is likely to be taken up by a majority of civil servants, and public opinion will frown upon the greedy or lazy ones who turn it down.
That tells Ukrainian taxpayers either that they are paying their public servants too much, or that their public servants have other ways of getting money to buy watches that they would not be able to afford otherwise.
Hong Kong’s tycoons, press, intelligentsia, and civil servants, who normally agree on little, find themselves in complete agreement where Leung is concerned: they do not want him as Hong Kong’s next leader, despite his favorable popularity ratings.
And civil servants believe that Leung harbors resentment of Hong Kong’s British colonial legacy, of which the civil service is the most visible.
It has now been 17 years, and the G7 is still serving little other purpose than to keep its member states’ civil servants busy.
Civil servants cannot defend themselves in the same way; they have to be defended by their ministers.
French civil servants, convinced that they can spot profit opportunities better than the market, engage in a proactive industrial policy with a variety of tools, including the retention of minority or controlling stakes in a number of large enterprises.
France is also a heavily centralized State, were most civil servants are recruited from a close circle of policy advisers to the top politicians, often educated at the same institution.
Sometimes her efforts were heavy-handed, as when she embraced AIDS victims physically as a metaphor for social inclusion; sometimes they backfired, as when her shared intimacies with servants provided fodder for a flood of posthumous tell-all books.
With its government – and those in other progressive states – rising to the occasion, once-skeptical pundits are beginning to take notice, and talented public servants who normally focus on Washington, DC, are increasingly looking to work for states and cities at the vanguard of change.
Policy gurus and politicians probably spend too much time with others like them – top civil servants, high-flying journalists, successful businesspeople – and too little time with ordinary voters.
Moreover, we need politicians and civil servants who are technically and ethically qualified for the job.
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