Future of the public sector
Warnings about the death of the public sector have often been sounded in the past. However, it has always turned out, as Mark Twain once observed in relation to himself, that the report of death has been exaggerated. At the moment, as chapters 3 and 4 in this volume indicate. The public sector in under attack and is being reduced in size in many countries. However, we are confident that this is a passing phase, not its death throes.