From The Straits Times / Reuters:
SINGAPORE’S civil servants are the most efficient among their Asian peers, a business survey on 12 economies released on Wednesday showed, but they tend to clam up unhelpfully when things go wrong.
The Republic was ranked first for a third time in a poll of 1,274 expatriates working in 12 North and South Asian nations on the efficiency of bureaucrats in those countries.
The poll was last held in 2007.
‘During normal times, when the system is not stress-tested, it operates very well,’ Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy said in a 12-page report of Singapore’s bureaucracy.
‘However, during difficult times – or when mistakes are made that reflect badly on the system – there is a tendency among bureaucrats to circle the wagons in ways that lack transparency and make accountability difficult,’ the report said.
India’s ‘suffocating bureaucracy’ was ranked the least-efficient by the survey, which said working with the country’s civil servants was a ‘slow and painful’ process.
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“Like you?”
Why not ?
“Then how do we compare?”
Not your mother. Must I teach you.
“How is it different?”
Like Baluku and apple.
“What sweeping statements?”
Go look up the dictionary.
“Too many compared to what? Who thinks is too many? You?”
You don’t think so ?
95) salaally
Nope, i’m staying in a contested PAP ward. PAP won by a margin in my ward.
i meant ‘whisker’, not ‘margin’.
Are we only interested in becoming number 1, 2 or 3 in this competitive world? And then, what next?
@ 80 Observer (SG-HK)
Insightful observations.
Excellent reminders.
KopitiamApek, re: “Would be useful to have comparative data to look at.”
Why is it useful to have comparative data? Do you mean if it is all right for others (even if it is bad), it is all right for us? I care about whether it works for us, the taxpayers, as simple as that. I don’t care what others say about us.
106) Taxpayer :
///Why is it useful to have comparative data? Do you mean if it is all right for others (even if it is bad), it is all right for us? I care about whether it works for us, the taxpayers, as simple as that. I don’t care what others say about us.///
I meant “Would be useful to have comparative data to look at.”
How did you arrive at all that you wrote from that one question?
However, during difficult times – or when mistakes are made that reflect badly on the system – there is a tendency among bureaucrats to circle the wagons in ways that lack transparency and make accountability difficult,’ the report said.
This is totally spot on.
Have you read the TRUTH YET !!!!!!
Ministry Of Manpower : Issue 3228981 .
SGCOMPLAINS.COM
As usual , no idea of who really did the survey , and the questions asked . Also interviewing expats is NOT the way of doing a survey about countries . I AM AN EXPAT , and I will tell you most of the expat community is not knowledgeable of even European standards , and most have little or no knowledge or experience of the countries they live in , and often even less knowledge of their country of origine.