The UN Economist Network has released a new Futures and Foresight Policy Brief on Governance Futures: Key Insights and Policy Implications. This Policy Brief examines the limitations of current governance systems and proposes alternative models…
Transforming institutions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals after the pandemic.The World Public Sector Report 2023 examines the role that national institutional and governance innovations and changes that emerged during the COVID-19…
National institutional arrangements for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A five-year stocktaking
Institutions are paramount to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and all the Sustainable Development…
Working Together: Integration, Institutions and the Sustainable Development Goals
The World Public Sector Report 2018 (WPSR 2018) examines how governments, public institutions and public administration can foster integrated approaches to the…
People Matter: Civic Engagement in Public Governance
The 2008 World Public Sector Report, People Matter: Civic Engagement in Public Governance, highlights the importance of civic engagement in public governance and by profiling several case studies…
Unlocking the Human Potential for Public Sector Performance
As recommended by the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UNCEPA), the third World Public Sector Report will be published in 2005, with a particular thematic focus on human…
E-Government at the CrossroadsThe World Public Sector Report 2003 presents a view of e-government as a tool for creating public value. It puts e-government development in the context of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, the Report claims…
Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea and nicknamed the “the Miracle of the Han River”, was one of the engines of rapid growth in one country among the “Asian Tigers”. As in many large cities, however, rapid economic growth was accompanied by…
The Third Pan-African Conference of Ministers of Civil Service, entitled “African Institutes of Public Administration: New Challenges, New Role, New Perspectives”, which took place in Windhoek, Namibia, on 5 and 6 February 2001, provided an…
In April 1996, the United Nations General Assembly, at its resumed 50th session, adopted resolution 50/225 on Public Administration and Development. The resolution confirmed the importance of reinforcing public administration for development and…