Wang Xiaoqi, China's Civil Service Reform

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years

Civil Justice Reform: A Mechanism Design Framework

The main goal of the court system is to differentiatebetween those who obeyed the law and those who did not. We describe a mechanism design framework that facilitates the characterization of a set of procedural mechanisms that would minimize the resources used to achieve this goal. This framework can also help to formulate and evaluate procedural rules, and to identify necessary and sufficient ...

Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Commentary: civil commitment and its reform.

Internationally, civil commitment laws have gone through substantial reforms in the past 50 years. Discernible shifts from the medically paternalistic to the excessively legalistic may be giving way to a blending of legislative intent under the rubric of therapeutic jurisprudence. In the light of those international movements, Shao and Xie describe how China's new mental health law shows the im...

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 ...