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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. Corruption was endemic, from the bribes demanded by traffic cops to the kickbacks needed to secure government contracts. Such prosecutions were unheard-of before 2014. A vestige of the Soviet Union, it was seen by many Ukrainians as more of a nuisance than a benefit.

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How human-centered design can help public agencies design better digital services

AWS Public Sector Blog

This blog post summarizes the experiences and insights he presented at the AWS Institute and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Executive Education program for public sector leaders in June 2022. Singapore launched the One Service app in 2014, two years after we began to try the new approach to development.

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More than a quarter of ambassador positions are without a Senate-confirmed official, hindering American diplomacy

Partnership for Public Service

The Center for Presidential Transition’s recent publication on the slow nomination and confirmation process to fill top national security positions conveys the challenges faced by new administrations. For example, when the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram abducted more than 200 school girls in Nigeria in 2014, the U.S.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA, meanwhile, has stated that there is no intention to do such redistribution and that the changes resulted instead from updating the GSE risk adjustments, mostly set about a decade ago, to be consistent with the rule it adopted in 2020 for minimum required capital. 3 This business model is very complex.