Government at a Glance Key Challenges for Government Reassessing the Role of Government Transparency and Accountability Building the Right Capacities The Need for a Long-term Perspective: Fiscal Sustainability Reducing Public Sector Spending

Goals of Glance Regarding policy development: Help governments to better serve citizens and business Support policy makers to deliver on government priorities Provide comparative data on governance capacity government performance

Goals of Government at a Glance For practitioners to better understand their own practices demonstrate their progress benchmark their own achievements through international comparisons learn from the experiences of other countries facing similar challenges over time link practices to performance

Major features of 2009 Focus on: public administration Unit of analysis: country (30 OECD) Use of best available data Most data on inputs and processes Most data collected by OECD Selective use of narrow composites

How is different from other data sets? Unique access to governments –data collected from government officials –practitioner focus Indicators selected in consensus with member countries Cooperation with working parties and expert groups Narrowly defined composite indicators No single super-indicator

Content of first publication How much and what kind of resources does government use? Inputs What does the government do, and how does it do it? Processes What are the goods and services which the government produces? Outputs What is the resulting impact on citizens? Outcomes How much money does government collect? Revenue Structure of government 1. Political and Administrative Context 2. Revenues3. Expenditures 4. Production Costs 5. Public sector employment 6. Central government workforce characteristics 7. HRM 8. Budgeting 9. Regulatory Management 10. Integrity 11. E-government 12. Open government

Reassessing the role of government

Government plays a large role in economy Government expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Government plays a large role in economy Government expenditure as a percentage of GDP

Outsourcing has increased Expenditures on public goods and services produced by the private sector as a percentage of GDP

Outsourcing has increased Expenditures on public goods and services produced by the private sector as a percentage of GDP

Evolving relationship between citizens and government Percentage of citizens using e-government services (2008)

Transparency and accountability

Major shift in core values over past decade Frequently stated core public service values

Countries taking steps to uphold values Number of countries where decision makers must disclose potential conflict of interest

Building the right capacities

Ageing workforce is a threat and an opportunity % of workers 50 years old or over in the labour force (2005)

Fiscal sustainability

Policies for debt reduction matter Australian long-term fiscal projections (2002 & 2007)

Difficult choices

Employment Employment in general government as a % of the labour force

Employment is decentralised Distribution of employment between the central and sub-central levels of government (2005)

Most spending on social programmes General government expenditure by function (2006) Average for 26 OECD countries

Future plans: Performance focus Update and improve input and process data Include available performance data for health and education and tax administration Moving towards new policy sector and whole-of government performance indicators Performance indicators for public governance processes

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