Nearly every personnel and pay system has some slack in it, either fiscal excess or staff positions (vacant or otherwise) that are not essential. The key is to look for targeted measures that produce savings and reduce the wage bill, without adversely affecting service delivery

Statestat is Maryland's performance measurement and management system. In use since 2007, Statestat was originally modeled after Baltimore's citistat as a way of capturing and monitoring the progress of government service delivery using frequently updated data. Through a process of continual...

The note shows how Thailand's efforts to ease budget controls, can complement efforts to strengthen the capabilities of government agencies. The country's budget reform strategy, while seeking to retain the benefits of tight central control, aims at avoiding its costs, by transferring control...