{"id":455958,"date":"2021-12-14T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T05:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=455958"},"modified":"2021-12-14T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T06:11:59","slug":"kuwait-has-made-the-least-progress-among-gulf-states-to-address-government-wage-bill-states-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/kuwait-has-made-the-least-progress-among-gulf-states-to-address-government-wage-bill-states-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait has made the least progress among Gulf states to address government wage bill, states World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait has made the least progress among countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council to reform its wage bill, the World Bank&#8217;s lead economist for the Gulf said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Kuwait, they have actually increased hiring in recent years, and after the oil price drop [of 2014], they actually increased hiring from 15,000 a year to 25,000 a year which is almost a whole cohort,&#8221; said the World Bank&#8217;s Ismail Radwan at a news conference in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we have a situation now where one-third of the Kuwaiti civil service has been recruited in the past five years, so that&#8217;s why we say it&#8217;s unsustainable,&#8221; Radwan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuwait has made the least progress among countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council to reform its wage bill, the World Bank&#8217;s lead economist for the Gulf said on Monday. &#8220;In Kuwait, they have actually increased hiring in recent years, and after the oil price drop [of 2014], they actually increased hiring from 15,000 a year to 25,000 a year which is almost a whole cohort,&#8221; said the World Bank&#8217;s Ismail Radwan at a news conference in Dubai. &#8220;So we have a situation now where one-third of the Kuwaiti civil service has been recruited in the past five years, so that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}