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Cut in ministries fails to make public administration smaller

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TIRANA, Jan. 16 – The drastic cut in the number of ministries after a new Socialist Party-led government took over in September 2017 has not been accompanied with the expected slash in the number of central government employees. Prime Minister Edi Rama cut the number of ministries to 11, down from a previous 16 as he claimed a second consecutive term of office out of the June 25 general elections, merging several ministries, and vowing to cut the number of government agencies by a quarter to 104, from a current 141. However, a report by ‘Open data’ research center referring…

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  • While ministries have cut some few hundreds of jobs, the slash was compensated by an increase in the number of some central government agencies and some newly established institutions, taking the number of central government paid employees to 81,753 for 2018, some 40 more compared to last year, according to a report by ‘Open data’ research center

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