The cash-strapped government spends over 90% of its total revenue on employment costs and plans on reducing the wage bill by 50%, a process that will result in salary cuts and job losses.
Zimbabwe: Govt to Cut Wage Bill
The Herald, 12 December 2016
GOVERNMENT says it would have reduced the civil service wage bill to between 50 and 55 percent of total expenditure by 2020. Read more »
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