Several decades ago,I was a member of the Society of Government Economists as a Senior Economist with the US Department of Labor in the summer of 1965.
Supporting the development of public policy such as job creation and training,a Government Economist is expected in creating a prosperous and a peaceful society. Acting as a key technical resource, I had the opportuknity to work on the sustainable development plan to advise the government on maximising the benefits of fesible studies, to monitor the performance of public agencies and provide regular briefing on macroeconomic and budgetary developments with tenacity and ethics.
Such Economist's role is to be actively stimulates both private sector development and public sector reform, while shaping the priority programs for outsourcing, parastatalisation and privatisation with rigor: the analytical significance resulted the publication of "Keys for Economic Understanding." www.Amazon.com for reference.
Naturally, the economist had to bring sound public policy experience at national or regional level, giving expert understanding or strategic planning, expenditure management, macroeconomic and microeconomic policy,(such as work and study) and financial forecasting. Equally importantly, a strong command of a foreign language would be desirable plus an appropriate postgraduate qualification and real interest in the evolutionary economics of developing nations.
The above job description is what I remember for such assignment many decades ago.
Francis Shieh a.k.a. Xie Shihao, a graduate student from Shanghai, China in 1947 and earned a graduate degree from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in 1950 with my dissertation entitled "Work and Study Cycle Theory" listed at Georgetown University Library online catalog for reference.
September 22, 2008 at 8.40 p.m.
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