Before we reform the civil service which I TOTALLY THINK WILL WORK, we have waay more low hanging fruit when it comes to privatisation. The textile mills, the jute mills, the sugar mills, the alcohol distilleries, the gas companies, electricity generation and retail, the oil company, seaports, airports, Biman (or as I like to call it Beiman) etc.
They're more politically viable than civil service reform. When the government was populated by the kids of villagers and urban working class families, you could have still done something about it. Now it's populated by the kids of the upper middle class they have become untouchable. We have finally managed to import India's socialist cancer into the country.
You might be aware of this already but we know for certain that the public sector are just lazy and increasing their salary doesn't do anything.
Here's the study. Doubling the salary of teachers didn't even reduce teacher absentism but increased their job satisfaction (I wonder why). https://www.nber.org/papers/w21806
Administration reforms won't mean much unless you institute federalism. The main functions of the government are law and order, health and education. I'm skeptical of the last two on the list but, for the sake of argument, I'm going to take the mainstream view. Local government funded by local property taxes will provide the best feedback loop for administrative reforms.
If you don't want to institute federalism because you think people outside of Dhaka are too stupid to vote for their own interest, they need to institute school and healthcare vouchers and shut down public schools and hospitals. Then you have permanently solved the problem for these sectors.
Hiring a middle manager from the private sector wouldn't mean anything unless you empower the manager to hire and fire as they see fit. The government doesn't need to create a complicated recruitment and KPI evaluation process. The manager should be given a target and a budget, and they should judged by the end of their term. The manager should have the autonomy to reshape the civil service as they see fit.
The worthless youth of today will say its unfair because they got fired. But these people need to be put in their place.
I agree with you. I would just note, it is very difficult to fire public sector employees even in the west. Even in the US federal government, as the DOGE-bros are going to realise soon.
The public sector in the West is not that corrupt. It should be easier to create a populist movement against public sector employees in a corrupt country like bangladesh.
It's too late. You might as well make one to suit your ends than let someone else run your nation. Power, unfortunately, is a zero sum game unlike trade.
Even a simple change where instead of passing an exam, the government hires a bunch of unpaid interns for 3-6 months and only permanently hires the most promising candidates, will yield dramatically better results. You can make the exam as sophisticated as you want but the whole exam passed recruitment process itself is stupid to begin with.
Before we reform the civil service which I TOTALLY THINK WILL WORK, we have waay more low hanging fruit when it comes to privatisation. The textile mills, the jute mills, the sugar mills, the alcohol distilleries, the gas companies, electricity generation and retail, the oil company, seaports, airports, Biman (or as I like to call it Beiman) etc.
Oh yeah. The railway as well.
Agree that most if not all of these should be privatised. Not sure if they are low hanging fruit for political economy reasons.
They're more politically viable than civil service reform. When the government was populated by the kids of villagers and urban working class families, you could have still done something about it. Now it's populated by the kids of the upper middle class they have become untouchable. We have finally managed to import India's socialist cancer into the country.
You might be aware of this already but we know for certain that the public sector are just lazy and increasing their salary doesn't do anything.
Here's the study. Doubling the salary of teachers didn't even reduce teacher absentism but increased their job satisfaction (I wonder why). https://www.nber.org/papers/w21806
Administration reforms won't mean much unless you institute federalism. The main functions of the government are law and order, health and education. I'm skeptical of the last two on the list but, for the sake of argument, I'm going to take the mainstream view. Local government funded by local property taxes will provide the best feedback loop for administrative reforms.
If you don't want to institute federalism because you think people outside of Dhaka are too stupid to vote for their own interest, they need to institute school and healthcare vouchers and shut down public schools and hospitals. Then you have permanently solved the problem for these sectors.
Hiring a middle manager from the private sector wouldn't mean anything unless you empower the manager to hire and fire as they see fit. The government doesn't need to create a complicated recruitment and KPI evaluation process. The manager should be given a target and a budget, and they should judged by the end of their term. The manager should have the autonomy to reshape the civil service as they see fit.
The worthless youth of today will say its unfair because they got fired. But these people need to be put in their place.
I agree with you. I would just note, it is very difficult to fire public sector employees even in the west. Even in the US federal government, as the DOGE-bros are going to realise soon.
The public sector in the West is not that corrupt. It should be easier to create a populist movement against public sector employees in a corrupt country like bangladesh.
Best not to create populist movement for or against anything.
It's too late. You might as well make one to suit your ends than let someone else run your nation. Power, unfortunately, is a zero sum game unlike trade.
True. :(
Even a simple change where instead of passing an exam, the government hires a bunch of unpaid interns for 3-6 months and only permanently hires the most promising candidates, will yield dramatically better results. You can make the exam as sophisticated as you want but the whole exam passed recruitment process itself is stupid to begin with.