All posts tagged "governance"

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  UK aid minister resigns over secret meetings with Israeli officials

  Priti Patel was forced to resign on Wednesday as Britain’s international development secretary Britain’s international development secretary Priti Patel was forced to resign on Wednesday, after she breached ministerial rules

  • Posted November 10, 2017
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  Diversity growing fast in senior Canadian jobs, report finds

  The share of executive posts in Canada’s federal public service held by women and people from ethnic minorities has increased rapidly over the past decade, a new study has found.

  • Posted November 2, 2017
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  Hong Kong to recruit over 5,000 civil servants

  Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to increase the number of civil servants in the territory by three per cent during the next financial year. More

  • Posted October 30, 2017
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  Former Hong Kong civil service chief wins global justice prize

  Hong Kong’s former chief secretary Anson Chan Fang On-sang has been awarded an international prize for advancing the rule of law, justice and human rights. She was named on Tuesday

  • Posted October 27, 2017
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  Gina Miller, businesswoman and campaigner: Exclusive Interview

  When Gina Miller forced the UK government to consult Parliament before triggering the process of leaving the EU, she became a hate figure for hardline Brexiteers. Global Government Forum’s Matt Ross

  • Posted October 9, 2017
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  UK PM takes direct charge of EU negotiation team from Brexit department

  The key civil servant managing Britain’s Brexit negotiations has moved into a new role reporting to prime minister Theresa May, in a move that will strengthen Number 10’s control of

  • Posted September 18, 2017
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  UK civil service urged to step up professionalism reforms

  A report has called for a “greater sense of urgency” around ongoing reforms to the UK civil service to ensure it has a “fighting chance” of handling the growing pressures

  • Posted September 13, 2017
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  Corruption: Multinationals in developing countries – who’s accountable?

  Evidence shows corruption can actually increase in some developing countries after deregulation. Dr Pallavi Roy, Convenor of MA Globalisation and Multinational Corporations at SOAS University of London, sets the scene

  • Posted July 17, 2017
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  Are you tracking how public money is spent, as well as how much?

  Governments around the world are dealing with common issues that pose long-term risks to their financial sustainability – aging populations, raised expectations of government services, increasing cost pressures and revenue

  • Posted June 22, 2017
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  UK Lords urge integration of health and social care to cope with ageing population

  A proposed new department to integrate bringing together health and adult social care is the centrepiece of a report by the UK’s House of Lords on the future sustainability of

  • Posted April 6, 2017
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