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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Main Authors: Hansen, Michael L. (Author), Shatz, Howard J. (Author), Constant, Louay (Author), Smith, Alexandria C. (Author), Kumar, Krishna B. (Author), Krull, Heather (Author), Usanov, Artur (Author), Dogo, Harun (Author), Martini, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2014.
Series:Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG1117-1.
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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.
Item Description:"MG-1117-1-KRG"--Page 4 of cover
"Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government."
At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government, Ministry of Planning.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 106 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
ISBN:9780833086334
0833086332