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Fiscal transparency should be at the heart of our parliamentary system. The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) plays a vital role in achieving this goal, but the legislation governing the PBO fails to give it the support it needs. The Officer role was created in 2006 in the wake of the Liberal spons...
The Government of Canada has historically led the way in providing accessible information to its citizens. Ours is one of the first countries to enact access to information legislation almost three decades ago, and we significantly expanded its coverage through the 2006 Federal Accountability Act. C...
All over the world and at all levels of government, finance tends to be a common area in which government trips up and jeopardizes the public's trust, either through a lack of communication regarding spending cuts or tax increases, or through the mismanagement of public dollars due to a lack of stro...
The Pakistani society has been chronically under served by the state institutions of governance and public service delivery. Governance indicators compiled by the World Bank rank Pakistan low on six critical dimensions. These indicators measure governance score of each country and rank it by the per...
Canada's Office of the Auditor General works to ensure that the federal government is spending public dollars wisely. With the federal government's net budgetary expenditures in 2010-2011 coming in at $261 billion, the Auditor General has his work cut out for him. PSD spoke with the current Auditor ...
A Chinese CEO once admitted that it was much more difficult to trust someone in business in China than in the West. "First make friends; then do business", he said, referencing an old Chinese proverb. In other words, before we can have the kind of trust necessary to engage in sound business relation...
Government contracting for the delivery of services has become increasingly common since at least the 1980s. Scholarly attention in this regard has heavily focused on two general topics. First, what motivates governments to outsource (make-or-buy) and, second, when they choose to do so, whom should ...
In recent years, accountability and transparency of public sector organizations, or the lack thereof, has been at the forefront of national news. As a result, there has been increased pressure on governments to facilitate the free flow of information from within public sector organizations. One of t...
This is an important year for government not-for-profit organizations. A wide range of these organizations, including hospitals, colleges and some universities, certain Crown corporations and agencies, and others, are now required to adopt public sector accounting standards, replacing those in Part ...
Strong negotiating skills are required of most managers and leaders, regardless of whether they are managing a private or public sector organization. But no matter how well-prepared an individual might be when entering negotiations, it can all fall apart if negotiating style is overlooked. This arti...
Those who work in the public sector know all too well that they can no longer keep going as they have, cutting budgets and squeezing services as they continue, year after year, to try to do all that they have done in the past with less and less money. They have likely already passed a tipping point ...
Former Toronto Mayor, David Miller, is well known for his support of sustainability, community, and expansive public transit. Before becoming Mayor of Canada's largest city, Mr. Miller completed degrees at Harvard and the University of Toronto. After first taking a run at Canadian Federal politics, ...
Today's rapid urbanization trends show no sign of slowing. An estimated 60 million people move into the world's cities and urban areas each year - more than one million every week. By 2050, more than 75 percent of the world's population will live in cities. In Canada, 69.1 percent of the total popul...