Tunisia: State Cannot Continue to Function While Devoting Nearly Half of Budget to Wage Bill (Tarek Cherif)

Tunis/Tunisia — "The state cannot continue to function while devoting nearly half of the budget to the wage bill, to the detriment of development and investment," said Confederation of Tunisian Citizen Enterprises (CONECT) President Tarek Cherif in a statement to TAP.

Cherif criticized the distribution of the State budget for 2020, estimated at 47 billion dinars, saying that 40% of this budget has been allocated to salaries and about 9% to compensation, while only 8% is reserved for investment.

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