Great to kick off the EU-funded #TSI project to support Greece to develop evidence-based tools to monitor & evaluate demographic policy. Happy to have the Region of East Macedonia-Thrace on board to assist them in adequately responding to its demographic challenges. SG REFORM 🇪🇺

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Reimagining Governance in Greece open.substack.com/pub/govdevgr/p…

No, 🇫🇷 is not 🇬🇷 15 years ago. It has a balanced current account (no sudden stop), its eye-watering govt deficits are flip-side of households flush with cash & govt debt servicing costs are 2% of GDP (less European Central Bank rebate). 🇬🇷 had none of it. 🇫🇷 is a mess, not a catastrophe.

The “Rule of Many” is replacing the “Rule of Three” to modernize federal hiring. Read more here: opm.gov/news/news-rele…

The private sector in 🇫🇷 has been deleveraging after a pandemic-era surge in debt. This is the flip side of rising govt debt. During the 2000s, 🇬🇷 private sector debt rose fast, while the govt failed to deleverage (hello Athens Olympics 2004). That's the build-up to a crisis.

To support President Donald J. Trump efforts to improve performance management, OPM is rolling out the Federal Performance Management Toolkit. This practical resource helps supervisors set clear expectations, give meaningful feedback and align performance with mission goals. opm.gov/policy-data-ov…

How to restore balance in this lopsided world? mintzberg.org/blog/the-decla…

ICYMI: OPM is launching two new Executive Development Programs to prepare the next generation of federal leaders. These programs are built to drive results, efficiency, and accountability across government. Sign up here: lnkd.in/g_mRHAW2

As the 100th anniversary of the birth of Milton Friedman winds down, might the dogma of his doctrine finally wind down too? Or shall we continue to believe that greed is good, markets are sufficient, and governments are suspect? mintzberg.org/blog/winding-f…

Prof. Susan Dudley in Law.com: While AI can quickly identify rules to cut, the administration will still need human staff to handle the legal and procedural steps of deregulation, and it remains unclear how successful those efforts will be law.com/nationallawjou…

❓ Did you know there's a treasure trove for public administration reforms? 🌟 The 'Practitioner's Toolbox' offers over 250 examples and practical tools to inspire change and streamline processes. 👉 Explore the Toolbox here: link.europa.eu/rnCy93

🌟 The ‘Practitioner’s Toolbox’ shows how public administrations across Europe are strengthening integrity, with real examples to promote ethics and detect, prevent and address corruption. 👉Explore: link.europa.eu/HwfNB8 #PublicAdmnistration

The single market is the world’s largest, yet 2 out of 3 companies see regulatory burden as an investment obstacle. The 'Practitioners’ Toolbox' shows how public administrations can make business easier and boost competitiveness. 👉link.europa.eu/rnCy93

This IMF paper finds that during and after the 2022 global inflation surge - largely driven by supply shocks -inflation outcomes in inflation-targeting countries were no better than in non-targeting countries, despite the former implementing more aggressive interest rate hikes.

IMF: "only about half of fiscal consolidations achieve their fiscal targets, including debt reduction. A broad range of econometric methods, based on well-established methods in the empirical literature, confirm that fiscal consolidations do not reduce debt ratios, on average."

Love at first sight” has to be, if not the most common form of serendipity, certainly the most venerated. We just love to glorify such things. For some people, it can be love at almost any sight. mintzberg.org/blog/serendipi…

If you're interested in low-resource or domain-specific evaluation checkout this cool dataset by Odysseas S. Chlapanis and Dimitrios Galanis and Nikos Aletras and Ion Androutsopoulos! GreekBarBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs on challenging legal reasoning questions across five

Has anyone come across a Euro politician - Commission, MEP, national - arguing for more regulation? It seems everyone is in favour of slashing it yet it seems to be only growing across most areas and sectors. Who is doing it then?

Οργάνωση των υπουργείων προς μία συνεκτική δημόσια διοίκηση - youtu.be/l13yyxNSwMY?si… via YouTube