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

<p>Charles Landry, author and president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival,<br> talks to us about how the public sector has been weakened from within through<br> consistent reduction in its capacities and expertise. Cuts in analytical,<br> foresight and strategic entities have not gone unfelt in crises. Under pressure<br> to deliver, the public sector has been increasingly reaching to the market and<br> outsourcing work. Spending and over-reliance on external consultants have,<br> expectedly, mounted. Equally important is that such a trend has infantalized<br> the public sector and put it on an unequal footing – through imbalanced access<br> to intellectual resources and investments – with external consultants. Are<br> there ways out ? Find out in his discussion with <a href="https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/learning/infantilized-and-unequal-%E2%80%93-public-sector-struggling-when-its-needed-most">UNESCO</a> 's <a href="https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/user/512" title="&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot; style=&quot;mso-ansi-language:EN-US&quot;&gt;Iulia Sevciuc&lt;/span&gt;">Iulia Sevciuc</a>.   </p>