Public Wage Bills in the Middle East and Central Asia

ByNatalia T. Tamirisa, Christoph Duenwald

January 9, 2018

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Summary

Analysis of policies for managing public sector wage bills in the Middle East and Central Asia region. While some work has been done recently at the Fund on issues related to government employment and compensation, to our knowledge, this is the first study to systematically examine, with a focus on the Middle East and Central Asia region, the recent trends and drivers of public wage bills in the region and to identify key policy implications.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Government wage bill, Labor, Public employment, Public sector wages, Wages

Keywords: bill growth, bill policy, bill reform, Central Asia and the Caucasus, data coverage, DP, DPPP, East Africa, Employment, General government wage, Government wage bill, Middle East, Middle East and Central Asia, North Africa, private sector, Public employment, Public sector wages, wage bill, Wages

Pages:
95
Volume:
2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484336731.087
Issue:
001
Series:
Departmental Paper No. 2018/001
Stock No:
PWBMECAEA
ISBN:
9781484336731
ISSN:
2616-5333

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