EGYPT: PM envisages fewer civil servants, smaller cabinet
Egypt’s prime minister said on Thursday he was working on a government restructuring that envisages a smaller cabinet and fewer civil servants to cut red tape and lure foreign investment. Speaking at a U.S. business gathering in Cairo, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt’s major challenges lie in chronic bureaucracy and a high birth rate. […]
FILE PHOTO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) shakes hands after the swearing in of Mustafa Madbouly, newly appointed Prime Minister, after Egypt appointed a new government on Thursday, at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 14, 2018.REUTERS
Egypt’s prime minister said on Thursday he was working on a government restructuring that envisages a smaller cabinet and fewer civil servants to cut red tape and lure foreign investment.
Speaking at a U.S. business gathering in Cairo, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt’s major challenges lie in chronic bureaucracy and a high birth rate.
“We have a plan to reform the government,” Madbouly told U.S. businessmen.
“We are working now through the ministry of planning and…the ministry of telecommunications to a structural reform of the government,” he said. He added that he believed there was a need to cut the number of cabinet posts in the government and “at least 38 percent of employees in the public sector will be retired in the next 10 years.”
“So this means at least 35-38 percent will be retired and our plan to replace them is very hard,” he said.