CSEND wrote background paper for a policy seminar on “Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol”, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was “Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005.
Modernising Public Administration
Administrative Reform through Training: Background The rapid growth of China’s economy over the past decade has put increasing performance pressure both on its public administration and on government officials, who have been compelled to acquire new skills in order to meet the complex challenges of the “four modernisations”. This pressure further increased after 1993, when more than a fourth of all civil service jobs were eliminated.
In 1994, CSEND was mandated to implement a three-year programme to assist the People’s Republic of China in modernising its central administration by improving management and training capabilities in government and public enterprises.
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