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Other authors / contributors: | Shatz, Howard J., author.
Constant, Louay, author.
Smith, Alexandria C., author.
Kumar, Krishna B., author.
Krull, Heather, author.
Usanov, Artur, author.
Dogo, Harun, author.
Martini, Jeffrey, author.
Labor and Population Program, sponsoring body.
Kurdistān (Iraq). Ḧikûmetî Herêmî Kurdistan-ʻÊraq, sponsoring body.
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ISBN: | 0833085913 9780833085917
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Notes: | "Sponsored by the Kurdistan Regional Government"--Title page. At head of title: Kurdistan Regional Government, Ministry of Planning. "MG-1117-1-KRG"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-106).
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Summary: | This monograph provides strategies to increase private-sector employment, including ways to reemploy civil-service workers in the private sector, in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq. Prepared for and at the request of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), this monograph is based on a variety of research methods and analyses. These include a review of the existing literature, analyses of survey data, analysis of Kurdistan regional and Iraqi national documents and laws, and a qualitative assessment of numerous conversations with government officials and private-sector employers. The KRG can develop its private sector by removing obstacles to starting or expanding a business, by identifying sectors for which conditions are particularly favorable for private-sector growth and supporting them, and by outsourcing and privatizing some functions that the KRG currently performs. However, private-sector growth does not guarantee that civil-service workers will leave for private-sector employment. Civil-service workers will need the qualifications necessary for private-sector jobs and will have to expect that the benefits of private-sector employment outweigh the benefits of civil-service employment. At the same time, as the KRG devises methods for encouraging civil-service workers to leave for the private sector, a key challenge will be to ensure that the most productive employees stay with the KRG in order to ensure the proper functioning of government.
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