All posts tagged "governance"

• 
  What Brexit has meant for the UK civil service so far?

  While Britain’s vote to leave the EU has had no immediate impact on Europeans living in the UK or Britons living in other EU nations, the referendum result has led

  • Posted July 27, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Majority of readers have personally experienced federal pay problems affecting over 80,000 of Canada’s public servants

  Almost three quarters of Canadian Global Government Forum readers have personally experienced problems with receiving their federal pay, as the government of Canada has admitted that more than 80,000 public servants

  • Posted July 25, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Health tourism demands coordinated action by governments, says Hong Kong’s health permanent secretary

  The emergence of ‘health tourism’ and international markets in surgical procedures present a major challenge to government health departments, Hong Kong’s outgoing permanent secretary for food and health has told

  • Posted July 25, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Richard Yuen Ming-fai, Permanent Secretary for Food and Health (Health), Hong Kong: Exclusive Interview

  On the eve of his retirement, Hong Kong’s health permanent secretary tells Matt Ross how the territory is reforming its healthcare system to prepare for a future in which half

  • Posted July 25, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Commonwealth secretary-general: ‘We will turbo-charge Commonwealth trade advantage’

  The Commonwealth will “turbo-charge” efforts to increase trade advantages for its 53 member countries, following the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, Commonwealth secretary-general Patricia Scotland has told parliamentarians.

  • Posted July 21, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Finding the exit: the future of UK-EU relations

  What happens when an unknown prime minister ventures into the unknown? Matt Ross explores the options facing Britain’s new PM as she contemplates the unprecedented task of extracting an EU

  • Posted July 21, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Frances Adamson appointed first woman to lead Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

  Frances Adamson has today been appointed the first female civil servant to lead Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her appointment brings the number of female department secretaries to

  • Posted July 20, 2016
  • 0
• 
  OECD praises Turkey’s ‘resilient’ business sector but calls for reforms

  The OECD has praised Turkey’s business sector for demonstrating “extraordinary resilience” during the current political unrest in the country, but also called for the government to implement a number of policies in

  • Posted July 19, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Brexit minister Oliver Letwin leaves government after being branded ‘completely unsuitable’ for the job

  Oliver Letwin, the minister in charge of the UK government’s Brexit Unit who was branded as “completely unsuitable” for the job by former cabinet secretary Andrew Turnbull, has left the government.

  • Posted July 14, 2016
  • 0
• 
  Brexit: UK government should try to win back officials from European Commission by offering ‘more than competitive pay’, committee says

  Britain’s government should make “particularly strenuous efforts” to win back more than 1,000 UK nationals working for the European Commission by offering “more than competitive pay” to help with Brexit

  • Posted July 13, 2016
  • 1