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The COVID-19 crisis isn’t slowing Canada’s ambitious agenda for mitigating carbon emissions. Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s minister of environment and climate change, explains how green jobs will play a major role in economic recovery.

Step by step, BCG's Digital Acceleration Index helps governments meet their digital ambitions.

The most progressive governments are restructuring to provide citizens with end-to-end services through a single point of contact.

Many employers complain that today’s graduates are unprepared for the work world they face. BCG Senior Partner J Puckett explains what education systems need to focus on in order to provide learners with the skills that the future of work will require.

Governments deliver essential services that enable and better the lives of citizens. So they can learn a great deal from the private sector about better servicing customers—specifically the imperative to innovate to gain efficiencies and effectiveness, explains BCG’s Vincent Chin, the global leader of BCG’s Public Sector Practice.

Governments must meet new citizen demands for better services—but with fewer resources. In this video, the BCG senior partner and managing director discusses how agencies can successfully meet the challenge of doing more with less. But he cautions that doing so will “require a lot of courage.”