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Working paper No. 06/03 Public Sector Reforms in Armenia 1999 – 2005: Achievements and Challenges Armen Khudaverdyan Ara Hovsepyan Deputy team leader of Armenia Public Head of DFID Armenia office Sector Reforms Project (APSREP) and a-hovsepyan@dfid.am Secretary of the Public Sector Reforms Commission under the GoA akhudaverdyan@ January 2006 Abstract Armenia is still at an early stage in the process of post-Soviet state building and is struggling to build a fully functioning national administration using administrative machinery inherited from the Soviet Union and better suited to a local or regional government. This has resulted in a range of governance and institutional weaknesses and constraints that have impacted on public service provision and on poverty reduction since independence in 1991… The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the Armenian International Policy Research Group. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. Keywords: governance reforms, public administration, civil service, corruption JPE Classification: [provide 3-4 JPE classification codes] Abbreviations: CSC - Civil Service Council DFID - Department for International Development NCE -