Union of the Comoros: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
IMF Staff Country Reports, August 13, 2004
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- Published: August 13, 2004
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451809077.002
Overview
- This Selected Issues paper analyzes the decentralization of government in the Union of the Comoros and its economic management functions foreseen under the constitution.
- The paper examines the special challenge of combining a civil service reform needed to increase the efficiency of the civil service with the decentralization of the civil service foreseen under the new constitution.
- It discusses developments in a number of civil service indicators that are often used to analyze the government wage bill and employment in relation to economic and fiscal objectives.
Main analytical themes
- Decentralization of government and the constitutional allocation of economic management functions.
- Civil service reform aimed at increasing efficiency.
- Interaction between decentralization and civil service reform: institutional and implementation challenges.
- Analysis of civil service indicators for assessment of the government wage bill and employment relative to economic and fiscal objectives.
Findings and analysis (as presented)
- The core analytical finding centers on the tension between the need to reform the civil service to improve efficiency and the simultaneous constitutional decentralization of the civil service.
- The paper documents developments in multiple civil service indicators used to evaluate the wage bill and public employment, and situates those developments in the context of broader economic and fiscal objectives.
Policy considerations and recommendations (as presented)
- Reconcile civil service efficiency reforms with the decentralization framework established by the constitution.
- Design civil service reform measures that are compatible with decentralized management structures to avoid undermining efficiency gains.
- Use civil service indicators (as analyzed in the paper) to monitor and align the government wage bill and employment levels with economic and fiscal objectives.
Civil service indicators and fiscal analysis (topics discussed)
- Government wage bill dynamics.
- Public employment levels and composition.
- Indicators commonly used to analyze the relationship between civil service measures and economic/fiscal objectives.