Public Sector Pay and Employment Reform: A Review of World Bank Experience

摘要

The paper offers an interim review of the Bank's experience with public sector pay and employment reform. Its aim is to establish what has been done and what has been learned to date. The review has limited objectives: It seeks to inventory and analyze Bank operational work in selected countries and to provide a brief guide to Bank research and policy work on this subject. The review covers the period between 1981, when significant Bank involvement in this area could first be documented, and February 1987. Given the preliminary stage of most Bank initiatives in public pay and employment reform, relatively little can be definitively concluded about the impact of Bank efforts. Instead, the paper tries to draw attention to issues that have emerged in the early phases of these activities and make some tentative suggestions about directions for future Bank work. (Copyright (c) 1989 The World Bank.)