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Civil service reform --- Civil service --- Fonction publique --- Réforme

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Administrative agencies --- Civil service reform --- Public administration --- Management --- France --- Politics and government

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Civil service reform --- Compensation management --- Employee fringe benefits --- United States --- United States. --- Officials and employees --- Salaries, etc.

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Civil service reform --- Civil service --- Government productivity --- Personnel management. --- National Performance Review (U.S.) --- United States --- United States. --- Officials and employees.

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This paper assesses a decade of experience in civil service reform in a sample of 32 sub-Saharan African countries. Many countries have made an important start towards reducing excessive staffing levels and the nominal wage bill, but less progress has been made in decompressing salary differentials in favor of higher-grade staff. In the CFA franc zone countries, real wages fell sharply after the 1994 devaluation, but the wage bill relative to tax revenue is still high in many countries. There is a need to consolidate quantitative first-generation reforms that contribute to macroeconomic stabilization. Equally important is the need to make progress on qualitative second-generation reforms, especially remuneration and promotion policies that reward performance and measures to improve civil service management. Such policies will require strong political commitment by governments.

Labor --- Employment --- Unemployment --- Wages --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General --- Civil service & public sector --- Labour --- income economics --- Civil service --- Civil service reform --- Real wages --- Economic theory --- Uganda --- Income economics