Civil Service Reform in Brazil. Principles versus Practice

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years

[Principles and practice of health promotion in Brazil].

Cad. Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 24(1):4-5, jan, 2008 Health promotion ideas and proposals in Brazil were first launched in the mid-1980s, fueled by the debate on the National Health Reform. Discussion of such ideas was featured at the 8th National Health Conference in 1986, whose proposed concepts and objectives for Brazilian society were quite similar to those put forward previously during...

Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years - Finance & Development - June 1998 - Ian Lienert

B EFORE 1985, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa had seen their nominal wage bills expand. This was due, in large part, to a rapid increase in civil service employment—in some countries, the number of civil servants rose by as much as 10 percent a year. This expansion reflected the high degree of government intervention in the economy as well as the need to educate and provide health care to ...

Forest Policy Reform in Brazil

Rapid deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, caused by economic, social, and policy factors, has focused global and national attention on protecting this valuable forest resource. In response, Brazil reformed its federal forest laws in 2006, creating new regulatory, development, and incentive policy instruments and institutions. Federal forestry responsibilities are maintained within the minist...