The International Monetary Fund says Zimbabwe should put a tight lid on rising wage demands in the public sector where civil servants are demanding salary increases of up to 200 percent, reports said today. “The challenge really is to contain spending and particularly wages, public sector wages. This is a longstanding issue in Zimbabwe and it continues to be a challenge to get the consensus to hold back public wage increases,” IMF deputy director for the African department Sharmini Coorey said.
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