Overview of Changes in Public Administrations of Latvia and Estonia Provoked by Economic Crisis

Management and Sustainable Development 2012
Iveta Baltiņa

The concept of sustainable development has many facets, all of them related in various ways to the current and future quality of human life. The core of the notion is the idea of an overall improvement of the living conditions of the society compatible with the needs of future generations. In this respect reforms performed in public administrations should encourage development of sustainable development principles first of all in the public institutions with future perspective in transformation of these principles in future policies. As we all now economic crisis has provoked changes in the public sector. Necessity to reduce budget expenses has led to situation with cut of number of public employees in different countries. It is clearly evident that financial crisis has encouraged European Governments to foster Public Administrations reforms during last two years. The purpose of this paper is to provide overview of changes in public administrations of Latvia and Estonia provoked by economic crisis and to look on the human resources management aspect, to understand whether actions taken are facilitating development of sustainable public administration.

Atslēgas vārdi
sustainable human resources management, financial crisis, public administration
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Baltiņa, I. Overview of Changes in Public Administrations of Latvia and Estonia Provoked by Economic Crisis. Management and Sustainable Development, 2012, No. 2, 53.-58.lpp. ISSN 1311-4506.

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)