During the Covid-19-pandemic, "consultants (were) not just advising governments; they (were) actually engaging in day-to-day pandemic governance & administration". We need "a way out of an increasingly privatized governance machine" https://t.co/HgTkm
"professional services firms have been able to leverage their scope, scale, speed and networks in deepening their role in governance, moving beyond simply advising governments to providing core administrative functions." https://t.co/iDK1fL8qff
An elegantly-articulated piece on the ever-growing utilisation of external consultants at all levels of the Indian government - something that I’ve witnessed & participated in first hand. Would append this recent article as a supplementary read: https