Africa's public wage bill poses development dilemma
Limited options for curbing public wages raise the chance that capital investment plans will be hit
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- Fiscal impact
- Public premium
- MDGs
- Difficult to reverse
- Wealth perception
- Low inflation
- Distortions
- Cutting back
- More debt
- Reform?
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_350.jpg "IMF Africa director Antoinette Sayeh speaks at the Africa regional economic outlook conference in Lagos (Reuters/Akintunde Akinleye)")