In research projects at Secons, Vukovic has evaluated the improvements in government performance in Serbia -- the training of staff, the implementation of new guidelines, the improvement of the technology and infrastructure -- and identified weaknesses in decisionmaking and intra-government mobility.
As health secretary Jeremy Hunt declares war on loneliness, the government reduces mobility payments, ensuring that the disabled will get a good deal lonelier.
Alan Milburn, the former Labour health minister and government social mobility tsar, is at the helm of a new group funded in part by Sir Richard Branson to fight Britain's exit from the European Union.
"Under the last Labour government social mobility fell and it is important that we act to increase opportunity and public involvement.
Recent initiatives from the Brazilian government include mobility programs such as Science without Borders [14], which is sending hundreds of thousands Brazilians to study at prestigious universities abroad, and the Greater TI program (TI Maior [15]), which has significant focus on boosting the domestic IT sector.
Given the party's obsession with cutting government spending, "mobility" will remain a hollow mantra, nothing more.
Last week the government's social mobility commission delivered its annual state of the nation report which found that "Britain has a deep social mobility problem which is getting worse for an entire generation of young people".
The strategy is expected to include seven annual indicators to help the government monitor social mobility.
The government's social mobility tsar, James Caan, has come under fire this week for familial nepotism.
In other words, the entire basis for the government's social mobility strategy is wrong.
So, Alan Milburn has been appointed as the coalition government's social mobility "tsar".
