Infantilized and unequal – the public sector is struggling when it’s needed the most

Charles Landry, author and president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, talks to us about how the public sector has been weakened from within through consistent reduction in its capacities and expertise. Cuts in analytical, foresight and strategic entities have not gone unfelt in crises. Under pressure to deliver, the public sector has been increasingly reaching to the market and outsourcing work. Spending and over-reliance on external consultants have, expectedly, mounted. Equally important is that such a trend has infantalized the public sector and put it on an unequal footing – through imbalanced access to intellectual resources and investments – with external consultants. Are there ways out ? Find out in his discussion with UNESCO 's Iulia Sevciuc . Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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Infantilized and unequal – the public sector is struggling when it’s needed the most is an episode from The Policy Nerd by UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab.

This episode is 24:12 long.

This episode was published on Aug 13, 2024.

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