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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/clark-figure1.png829531In the two years since Ben Eisen and I proposed in these pages a set of public management principles for an era of austerity (October 2010), federal and provincial budgets have indeed tightened. Subsequent contributors to Policy Options, particularly Kevin Lynch, have reiterated the need to improve productivity in Canada’s public institutions, which include our […]