Public service falling short on evaluating policy, Treasury's Makhlouf says

Mon, 15 Apr 2013

By Paul McBeth April 15 (BusinessDesk) - The public service needs to pick up its act in evaluating new policy as it embarks on its most radical reform since the 1980s, Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf says. The government is looking to tear down walls between departments and ministries as part of its Better Public Services programme to create narrower goals with a more cooperative approach by its agencies. Among those goals is what Makhlouf calls 'policy stewardship', in that the state sector "should understand the impact that policy is...

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