By Sunita Kikeri
Most folk agree stable funding weather is vital for progress and poverty aid. much less transparent is the right way to in achieving it. Drawing from greater than 25 case experiences, this publication exhibits that reform usually calls for paying as a lot consciousness to facing the politics and institutional dimensions as to designing coverage substance. whereas there isn't any unmarried recipe or 'manual' for reform, the authors spotlight 3 extensive classes. the 1st is to acknowledge and grab possibilities for reform. obstacle and new governments are very important catalysts, yet so is the contest generated via alternate integration and new benchmarking info. the second one is to speculate early within the politics of reform. Public schooling may also help achieve large attractiveness for reform, whereas pilot courses will be worthwhile for demonstrating the advantages and feasibility of swap. And the 3rd is to regard implementation and tracking as a vital part of the reform technique and never simply as an afterthought. within the absence of public quarter reform, reformers can draw on deepest region switch administration suggestions to revitalize associations and installed position mechanisms to observe and maintain reform. The publication presents an rising list for reformers and identifies components for destiny paintings.
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Pakistan automated and electronically linked all its major business registries. Vietnam introduced business registration by Internet. And Mexico introduced electronic systems to help simplify environmental and customs inspections. All these information technology solutions helped simplify procedures, provide access to information (such as on laws, regulations, and procedures), and inform the public about its rights and about how to participate in the process. They also helped remove discretionary powers, improve transparency and accountability, and facilitate monitoring.
In Colombia labor market reforms came onto the agenda in 1999, but it took a new government to get the reforms passed in 2002 amidst a severe unemployment crisis. In office for less than a year, the new government had strong popular support and faced little threat of political defeat. The appointment of a new minister of labor who championed the reforms proved critical. Rapid approval of the new labor code was also aided by the fact that many of the policy proposals had been prepared and widely discussed during two previous attempts in 1999 and 2001 (Echeverry and Santa Maria 2004, p.
Consultation is particularly important for policies that will have wide distributional consequences and are likely to impact multiple stakeholder groups. 13 It can also create suspicion and defer resistance to a later stage, as it did in Korea and Mexico, where the failure to build a sufficiently broad base of stakeholder support at an early stage hampered implementation of regulatory reforms (for more on this, see the section on creating oversight mechanisms). Moreover, dialogue and consultation can help make the outcome more credible, even at the expense of delays and compromise.