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HK Civil Servants Among Best in Region
The Hong Kong Civil Service is rated the least bureaucratic in 2001 among 14 places, including the USA, Australia, Japan and Singapore, according to a report published by the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.
In a letter to all civil servants, the Secretary for the Civil Service, Joseph W P Wong said he was pleased to learn that the Hong Kong Civil Service had been so rated in the Asian Intelligence Report published by the Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd.
"On a scale of zero to 10, with zero being the best grade possible, Hong Kong emerged with a top score of 3.29, as compared with 4.0 last year and 4.61 in 1999," Wong explained.
"It is reassuring to learn that our performance is being recognized as amongst the best in the Asia Pacific region. This should provide us with the added impetus to do even better in the days to come," he stressed.
The report found that the average Hong Kong resident or businessman did not encounter civil servants with great irregularity. Businesses have also noted a marked improvement in recent years.
The report observed that there was probably not a place in the world where residents were not critical of their civil service. However, at their best, civil servants help to preserve institutional integrity and provide a consistency in policy implementation.
The report regarded Hong Kong as probably the best example of governments that were really aggressive in engaging the public in the search for ways to improve the way civil servants could do their jobs.
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