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Public sector management
People rely on governments to effectively and appropriately manage public expenditure and develop beneficial trade and investment policies.
Resources in this section concentrate on policy and management practices that promote public sector efficiency, transparency and accountability, to improve the performance of public servants and inform traders and investors about regulations and best practice.
HR management
- Providing remedies: fact sheet
- Public interest disclosure legislation in Australia: towards the next generation- summary
- Public interest disclosure legislation in Australia: towards the next generation an issues paper
- Improving counterpart relationships in PNG
- Civil society & improved governance in developing countries conference: keynote address
- At home and away: expanding job opportunities for Pacific Islanders through labour mobility
- Human Resources capacity model
- Get it Right toolkit
- Australian public sector human resources publications
- Dispute resolution resources
Managing public expenditure
- Budget classification: concepts and issues
- Public sector reform: what works and why? An evaluation of World Bank support
- How does taxation affect the quality of governance?
- Paying for people: financing the skilled workers needed to deliver health & education services
- Critical issues in fiscal decentralisation
- A Contemporary Approach to Public Sector Management
- Public financial management toolkit
- Public expenditure resources
- China’s fiscal system – a work in progress
Economic development
- Commission on Growth and Development
- Employment, poverty reduction and empowerment in Sri Lanka in export manufacturing factories
- Evolving regional financial architecture in East Asia
- e-Government: Interoperability
- Migration, trade, capital and development: substitutes, complements and policies
- Making fiscal space happen: managing fiscal policy in a world of scaled-up aid
- The impact of regulation on economic growth in developing countries: a cross-country analysis
- Migration and the remittance euphoria: development or dependency?
- Workers' remittance flows in Southeast Asia
- Pursuing economic growth in Papua New Guinea
Trade & investment
- Future trade research areas that matter to developing country policymakers
- World Trade Report 2007: Six decades of multilateral trade cooperation: what have we learnt?
- Making trade policy in a new democracy after a deep crisis: Indonesia
- The new international architecture in trade and investment: current status and implications
- Strengthening Capacity for Development
- Globalization and the environment: why all the fuss?
- Policy space: are WTO rules preventing development?
- Making trade agreements relevant for poor countries: why dispute settlement is not enough
- Power shift: do we need better global economic institutions?
- The future of Fair Trade coffee: dilemmas facing Latin America's small-scale producers
- Asia-Pacific human development report 2006 - trade on human terms
- Case studies on managing the challenges of WTO participation
- Remittances and labour mobility in the Pacific
- Trade liberalisation and the environment in Vietnam
- Practical guide to the TRIPS agreement
- Trade and environment review 2006
- Gender and trade
- Agricultural trade policy made easy
- South-south trade – winning from liberalisation
- The Australian APEC Study Centre
- Open economies delivering to people
- Doha development agenda trade capacity building database
- Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT)
- Trade, development and poverty reduction
- Globalisation & poverty: Turning the corner
- World Trade Organization membership
- Market access for goods
- Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
- Asia-Pacific import regulations
- Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
Resources, manuals, toolkits
- 30th anniversary seminar speeches and presentations: Commonwealth Ombudsman
- Lessons for public administration: the Ombudsman investigation of referred immigration cases
- Promoting local governance through municipal International cooperation
- ADB and public resource management in India
- Ten as one: challenges & opportunities for ASEAN integration
- Securing equality, engendering peace
- Timor-Leste local development program progress report 2005
- Can privatisation and commercialisation of public services help achieve the MDGs?
- Accountability in a contemporary public sector
- Governance and state effectiveness in Asia
- Revenue administration and corruption – what works?
- Behavioural economics: seven principles for policy makers
- OECD Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC)
- East Asia decentralises: making local government work
- Governance in the Pacific: focus for action 2005-2009
- Connecting Government
- Workshop presentations - Designing and Implementing e-Government
- State functioning and state failure in the South Pacific
- E-Government in Australia – how does it score? (pdf 64K)
- Public sector reform in New Zealand: Issues of public accountability
- Vietnam: Public sector management (a working paper)
- United Nations public administration and finance online network
- Asia-Pacific local government comparative assessments
- Anti-bribery / anti-money laundering business principles
- Good governance and rapid economic development