Reform of the core public sector: the New Zealand experience
Abstract: New Zealand Government has adopted a comprehensive approach to improve public sector management. Many "Commercial" activities in departments have been set up as limited liability companies under a managements for intensive monitoring where there are no social reasons for retaining ownership these assets are being privatized. For its other agencies the Government has adopted a two-pronged approach. First, it has placed departmental wads on limited tenure contracts, responding to the Minister in change of the department. Second, it has changed the reporting regime for departments and compled the degree of flexibility given to managers to the quality of the information they are able to provide. Th