Améliorer la qualité des services publics, offrir un environnement de travail modernisé aux fonctionnaires et maîtriser les dépenses publiques en optimisant les moyens. Voila les objectifs du programme Action Publique 2022, lancé par le Gouvernement le 13 octobre 2017, pour accélérer la transformation de l'administration. Plus...
Découvrez la nouvelle organisation de la transformation publique et numérique de l’État
La transformation de l'action publique ouvre aujourd'hui un nouveau chapitre de son histoire. Le secrétariat général pour la modernisation de l'action publique (SGMAP) laisse place à la direction interministérielle de la transformation publique (DITP) et à la direction interministérielle du numérique et du système d'information et de communication de l'Etat (DINSIC). Plus...
Travail d’intérêt général / Donnons-nous la peine de développer cette alternative à la prison
Chantiers Passerelles a lancé son manifeste pour le travail d’intérêt général, désormais signé par 20 organisations nationales - dont l'UNML - et de nombreuses personnalités. Le travail d’intérêt général est une alternative humaine, efficace et peu coûteuse à l’incarcération. Plus...
Media Alert: 2017 NTEU Lecture by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
The joys and tears of Australian engagement in universal human rights in the United Nations is the topic of the 2017 National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) Lecture to be delivered by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on Thursday 16 November. More...
The lost secret of aid efficiency
In 1963 John Pincus of the RAND Corporation suggested redefining aid to reduce all forms of aid to their value as grant or subsidy, and in 2014 the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) agreed to his suggestion. More...
The Policy Challenge: Catalyse the private sector for stronger and more inclusive growth
Posted . Global economic growth is strengthening, with incoming data surprising on the upside. We project global GDP growth to be between 3 ½ and 3 ¾ per cent through the projection horizon, closer to long-run averages. Will this synchronised momentum finally propel the global economy to gather enough speed to raise productivity, real wages, and living standards for all. More...
How can countries close the equity gap in education?
Education plays a dual role when it comes to social inequality and social mobility. On the one hand, it is the main way for societies to foster equality of opportunity and support upward social mobility for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. On the other hand, the evidence is overwhelming that education often reproduces social divides in societies, through the impact that parents’ economic, social and cultural status has on children’s learning outcomes. More...
People, trust and government: Getting the measure
Is trust between people and their governments crumbling? What the great philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau called the social contract, whereby free citizens voluntarily agree to concede authority to the state in their own interest, could be in question. The OECD’s How’s Life? 2017 report finds that only 38% of people in OECD countries say they trust their government. More...