Civil servants’ wages are eating up far too much of the country’s resources — and allowing them to account for the lion’s share of expenditures in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget suggests that funding development is not a priority for cabinet, Ashraf El Barbary writes for Al Shorouk. The bloated budget for state employees could have been put to better use had it been allocated to the country’s education development program, which El Barbary fears is sorely lacking the necessary financing.

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