The most efficient government and the steep price

When I was reading the book on how to build the most efficient governments

"Building high performance government using lean six sigma"

by Mark Price, a management and strategy expert, the first thing he explained was that a good government must be

Outcome focused and Citizen-centric

This means that the government's administration must have its processes designed around a specific executive objective (such as better education, a better health sector, a better economy), and this objective must, and I repeat must, be centred on: the benefit of the citizen.

He explained that governments are neither capitalist, profit-seeking institutions that should focus on profits alone, nor charities that focus on handouts to their subjects; rather, they are an executive entity which, together with the presidency, aims to create a climate for growth and sufficient income for citizens to live on.

Here I remembered the Egyptian presidency, the Egyptian government and Egyptian officials as they strive "hard" (if I may say so) to grow the economy, close the budget deficit, lift subsidies and create a free market... and I had the feeling that this institution has set economic growth as its highest goal, to the point that this goal has come before "the benefit of the citizen"!!

I am one of the strongest supporters of economic restructuring and the free market, but we must remember that these tools are used for "the original goal", which is: the benefit of the citizen... and not his impoverishment!

Otherwise, we may achieve the required growth and economic restructuring, but we will find that the citizen has become poorer and more miserable and feels no benefit at all... and this is the height of failure for any government in the world.

In the science of decision-making there is a well-known principle:

"Taking a good decision at a good price is better than an excellent decision at an exorbitant price"

Yes, we want complete economic restructuring in a time determined by "the price"... We do not want the restructuring time to be short when the price of that time is: the benefit of the citizen... for that is a steep price!

Thank you