State sector employment at 2.4 million is too high – but there is no financing support for the private sector to encourage its decrease
Dec 8 Sami Zaptia

State sector employment at 2.4 million is too high – but there is no financing support for the private sector to encourage its decrease

Speaking at today’s live-streamed session on ‘‘Financial Rebalancing and Addressing the Foreign Exchange Deficit’’ at the 6th Banking Sector Developme...

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Jan 28 Sami Zaptia

Libya’s jobseekers increase by 14 percent to 370,000

By Sami Zaptia.(Tripoli Ministry of Labour).London, 28 January 2021: The number of officially registered Libyan jobseekers at the end of 2020 increase...

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Jan 27 Sami Zaptia

Libya’s 2020 officially recorded workforce increased to 1.8 million

By Sami Zaptia.(Logo: Ministry of Labour).London, 27 January 2021: Libya’s officially recorded workforce rose to 1,872,971 employees in 2020, the Trip...

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Jul 3 Sami Zaptia

Libya has 2.3 million state-sector workers: Labour Ministry

By Sami Zaptia.(Ministry of Labour).London, 3 July 2020:Libya’s Labour Ministry, aligned to the internationally recognized government in Tripoli, anno...

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Unemployment, subsidies, undiversified economy, stifled private sector - problems of Libyan economy: WB
Feb 7 Sami Zaptia

Unemployment, subsidies, undiversified economy, stifled private sector - problems of Libyan economy: WB

Tripoli, 7 February 2014: "Libya’s labour market is skewed toward the public sector, which employs more than 80 percent of the formal workforce, whil...

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Dec 25 Sami Zaptia

LD 27 bn paid in salaries to 1.7 million public employees

By Ahmed Elumami. Tripoli, 25 December 2013: Nearly LD twenty seven billion, or 42 per cent of the Libyan budget, are paid as salaries to 1.7 millio...

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