The eight years postponement of the all-in wage scheme Law for the public servants represents one of the most serious and full of consequences arrears in regard to the "public function reform” process in Romania. This is one conclusion of the Public Servants' Status for Good Governance study, launched on Monday, December the 17th, 2007, by the Soros Foundation Romania. (Available only in Romanian).
The study signals the consequences of a simultaneous application of both the decentralization and deconcentration process, which generates institutional inefficiency, attribution overlapping and, locally, deficiencies inside the public services. The report also approaches the functioning difficulties between deconcentrated services and local public administration authorities, difficulties that most often are the source of institutional block.
George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). While a student at LSE, Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
The financier. In 1956, Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large...