In the short term, pay and conditions for civil servants and the army must be improved, the external debt must be serviced, and oil companies must be paid for the government's share of joint ventures.
Earlier, the chancellor said he wanted to make regional public sector pay more "responsive" to private sector wages, with some government departments given the option to move to regional pay structures for civil servants when the current pay freeze ends.
In Kabul, the government starting paying civil servants, for the first time in seven months.
Last year the court ruled against a pay cut for civil servants which forced the government to seek alternative sources of revenue.
For some governments there is an issue just about having the capacity - the civil servants with the right skills for example - to implement complex agreements.
At the time, he announced a review of national pay rates for public servants and asked the independent pay review bodies to report back in July.
Previously head of the First Division Association, the trade union for top civil servants, she is now a minister at the Foreign Office.
These include moving to beef up foreign investment, improving public welfare with cash hand-outs for civil servants and the poor, as well as pushing his 1Malaysia programme prioritising national unity.
The civil servants suspended for this booboo could argue that, in stripping Virgin of the franchise, they showed that competition is a reality in rail, which is good for growth.
The DPJ is advocating a 20 percent cut from the current JPY 5 trillion in personnel costs for the 560, 000 national level civil servants, but of course the civil service labor union is adamantly opposed.
There is little room for manoeuvre on the expenditure side, what with mandatory interest payments, transfers to the regions and salaries for civil servants.
The row is about changes to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme - the redundancy package for civil servants.
To placate the judges while preventing an explosion in pay demands, he needs Congress to approve the salary cap for public servants.
K.K. cared nothing for what his wife or the servants thought.
He emphasized the extraordinary work those public servants are performing for all of us and the dangers that would arise again if they were denied the authorities that were "sunsetted" in sixteen of the original Patriot Act's provisions.
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If the denuding of the capital reminds public servants of the need to prepare for disasters to come, the horrific storm will have done at least some good.
The incentive is to grow it, particularly for those in control, and with career civil servants ever fighting any form of downsizing, it seems the answer for true government shrinkage is not surgical strikes, but across the board cuts massive in nature.
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The new law will overturn what had been a constitutional guarantee for civil servants of a job for life, says the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens.
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And it was a reminder that in Washington we should not permit people with political motives to blight the careers of civil servants and blame them for failures of management and policy at the top.
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The witnesses include the top civil servants at Department of Health and the Department for Education.
The committee's proposals for employing full-time civil servants are due to be discussed at the Chief Pleas Easter meeting.
To ease Bangkok's notorious congestion, Mr Thaksin gave all civil servants a holiday for the duration of the summit.
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They are chipping away at the rules and procedures for civil servants, which fill a book over 1, 200 pages long.
Civil servants responsible for implementing the programme told the committee that it is taking a more strategic approach to capital investment than was previously the case.
The first is that Mr Kibaki wants to keep too much executive power for the presidency, including the right to appoint ministers, senior civil servants and the heads of state-owned outfits.
Lord Birt is part of the Blue Skies Forward Strategy Unit established after the general election to work with ministers and civil servants across departments, including the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.
They are kept that way by the constitution, which separates police officers from other public servants, meaning they do not qualify for the standard minimum wage and the 40-hour weekly work limit.
The Brazilian Senate has brought in a new law giving domestic servants the same rights as other workers for the first time.
Its rural economy project, for example, excluded civil servants from the agriculture and environment departments.
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