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Government as a business

• In this podcast and accompanying transcript, McKinsey managing director Ian Davis discusses the need for higher productivity in government, globalization, the challenge of aging societies in the developed world and ballooning populations in the emerging one, the role of regulation, and the relationship between the public and private sectors.
• Also included are our editors' selections of further reading from the Quarterly archive, offering additional McKinsey thinking on each of the themes discussed.