New Zealand’s public service employs many competent people. It pays them handsomely by the standards of the median income earner.
Their performance is impaired when the public service is poorly led, ill-structured, or hamstrung by poor quality government. Any or all of those can easily happen.
This research note looks at public service performance overall. It is not about public servants as individuals.
Is New Zealand’s public service bloated, as many have claimed and others have disputed? What is the yardstick, anyway? How competent is it, and in what respects? Is it focused on serving the elected government and the public interest, impartially? To what extent does it now have an agenda of its own, preoccupied with ethnicity, inequality, diversity, gender and ‘the Treaty’?
These questions are topical. New Zealand’s public service has grown hugely under the current government.
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Dr Bryce Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative, Director of Capital Economics, and former Director of the New Zealand Treasury. His articles can be seen HERE.
These questions are topical. New Zealand’s public service has grown hugely under the current government.
Click to read or download PDF
Dr Bryce Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at The New Zealand Initiative, Director of Capital Economics, and former Director of the New Zealand Treasury. His articles can be seen HERE.
2 comments:
All by design. Indoctrinated drones and voter base.
I just listening to the NZ initiative podcast on Aus v NZ. Very interesting and really quite disheartening, how a country like NZ can be endowed with massive resources yet it fails to make anything useful of them is beyond comprehension.
It’s all political and the politicians really don’t have a clue is the only conclusion I can draw.
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