TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hansen,Michael L.
AU  - Shatz,Howard J.
AU  - Constant,Louay
AU  - Smith,Alexandria C.
AU  - Kumar,Krishna B.
AU  - Krull,Heather
AU  - Usanov,Artur
AU  - Dogo,Harun
AU  - Martini,Jeffrey
ED  - Rand eBooks.
TI  - Strategies for private-sector development and civil-service reform in the Kurdistan Region—Iraq
SN  - 0833085913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - Civil service reform
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Kurdistan
KW  - Privatization
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Kurdistan (Iraq)
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - "Kurdistan Regional Government."; "Ministry of Planning."; "RAND Labor and Population."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106); Introduction -- Methods, Information Sources, and Data -- Employment in the Kurdistan Region—Iraq -- Fostering Private-Sector Development: Taking Advantage of Private Investment and Reforming the Enabling Environment -- Fostering Private-Sector Development: Outsourcing and Privatization of Government Functions -- Skills and Education of Civil-Service Employees -- The Civil-Service Compensation System and Personnel Policies.-- Strategies for Voluntary Civil-Service Separation – Conclusions – Appendix A: Estimates of Necessary Job Growth in the KRI – Appendix B: Differences in Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This monograph provides strategies to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector and to increase private-sector employment 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 KRG is able to retain the employees it needs in order to ensure the proper functioning of government
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