#FasttrackingReform @anthonybut @brankobrkic Donaldson says that building trust is at the centre of rebuilding the public service.
Why has SA lost development momentum, asks Donaldson? Thesis he makes: SA took on a huge range of too many very complex projects simultaneously.
7 perspectives on development. 1. Tension between role of government and markets. 2. Overlapping and contradictory BEE policies. 3. State building: is it about building institutions or building expertise. 4. Integrity + Performance Mngmt between rules based systems and discretion
5. Hierarchical coherence of govt: few countries have been through the scale of reorganisation as SA has. Unresloved issues between centre and margins. When things go wrong, tendency is to recentralise.
6. Institutional Change and managerial interests: corporatisation of public entities incentivises to behave like private companies, esp in renumeration.
7. Fiscal sustainability: rising debt and limits to tax collection and cost recovery.
Where should we be going, asks Donaldson? We have to face complexity: multiple objectives and the conflicts between them, overlapping jurisdictions and incomplete decision rights.
Economically, we need to focus on narrower objectives: focus on employment. Schools assistance programme is coming to an end - makes no sense. SA doesn't follow through on strategic decisions.
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