Strategies for private-sector development and civil-service reform in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq /
This monograph provides strategies to increase private-sector employment, including ways to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector, in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Prepared for and at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), this monograph is based on a variety of resear...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
Rand Corporation,
2014.
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| Series: | Rand Corporation monograph series.
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| Summary: | This monograph provides strategies to increase private-sector employment, including ways to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector, in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Prepared for and at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), this monograph is based on a variety of research methods and analyses. These include a review of the existing literature, analyses of survey data, analysis of Kurdistan regional and Iraqi national documents and laws, and a qualitative assessment of numerous conversations with government officials and private-sector employers. The KRG can develop its private sector by removing obstacles to starting or expanding a business, by identifying sectors for which conditions are particularly favorable for private-sector growth and supporting them, and by outsourcing and privatizing some functions that the KRG currently performs. However, private-sector growth does not guarantee that civil-service workers will leave for private-sector employment. Civil-service workers will need the qualifications necessary for private-sector jobs and will have to expect that the benefits of private-sector employment outweigh the benefits of civil-service employment. At the same time, as the KRG devises methods for encouraging civil-service workers to leave for the private sector, a key challenge will be to ensure that the most productive employees stay with the KRG in order to ensure the proper functioning of government. |
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| Item Description: | "Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government"--Title page. At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government, Ministry of Planning. "MG-1117-1-KRG"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 106 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106). |
| ISBN: | 0833085913 9780833085917 |