MManuel

Member of the Portuguese executive since 2005. Secretary of State for Administrative Modernisation, specially in charged of eGov and simplification matters and particullaly interested in future trends of public services (TGov). Before: full Professor at the University of Coimbra (economic law and regulation); coordinator of different reserach projects on firms' network, consumers' behaviour, economic law and government changes. Several books and papers published in these fields. Born in Mozambique. Main hobbies: to be with friends, cooking, travelling, tracking and swimming. Blogger at www.causa-nossa.blogspot.com

MManuel is at home at www.causa-nossa.blogspot.com.

Recently, MManuel...

commented on Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic VI over 4 years ago.

After recent financial disruptions on private national banks and the role that governments were forced to assume (“paying the bill”, protecting savings, the big and small, etc.) it is also important to re-think some of the mainstream ideas of last decades about the functions of the public sector. Weak or strong regulation? Where? More competition or more regulation? A different regulation? More or less independent?
commented on Public Sector Futures in The Connected Republic III over 4 years ago.

How to introduce more flexibility and openness in public sector and at same time respecting competition rules? How to combine more flexibility with more accountability, which means frequently more strict rules in what respect public biddings, more ex-ante and ex-post controls by accounts office, more political responsibility? It is an important challenge to reinvent the rules that have governed public sector since a lot of decades ago. In a way, that is possible to guarantee con...