LEXICON
No.94 December 12, 2011

(Proposal-based) policy screening
(提言型) 政策仕分け
Project screening
事業仕分け
Government Revitalization Unit (GRU)
行政刷新会議

The government created the Government Revitalization Unit (GRU; 行政刷新会議) chaired by the prime minister (内閣総理大臣) in 2009 in the Cabinet Office (内閣府) in order to review national budgets, regulations, and administrative policies in general and to review job-sharing between the...

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