Iraq's planning minster wants to slash public sector workforce
'All financial sectors ... should be 100 percent private'
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Monday, November 10, 2008
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Iraq's planning minister has ambitious plans to trim the fat from the government, reducing its workforce by 75 percent in 10 years and rebalancing a fiscal budget almost entirely reliant on oil exports. "I don't want to give an exact figure, but I think in a period of 10 years we can give up at least 75 percent of these people," Ali Baban told AFP.
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