Essays on Food, Hunger, Nutrition, Primary Health Care and Development (AVIVA, 480 p.): 32. Downsizing the Civil Service in Developing Countries: The Golden Handshake Option Revisited.: References:

Essays on Food, Hunger, Nutrition, Primary Health Care and Development (AVIVA, 480 p.)

32. Downsizing the Civil Service in Developing Countries: The Golden Handshake Option Revisited.

		(introduction...)
		Introduction: Setting the empirical and conceptual scene:
		Why downsize?:
		Why a golden handshake?:
		Possible new approaches and their limitations: How much to downsize?: Determining the magnitude of the downsizing
		How to downsize?: To set preconditions or not to set
		What to do with the wages saved from downsizing?
		The Kenya example
		The golden handshake: A grant or a loan to departing civil servants?
		To give incentives or to dismiss
		Other implementation issues: Alternatives on how to set up the payment system for the golden handshake:
		How to redeploy public servants to the private sector?
		Conclusions:
		References:

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