Throughout the Middle East, the public sector's share of the economy is among the highest in the world, at 32% of GDP, compared with 20% of GDP for other low- and middle-income countries.
The city's unemployment rate (6.4%) is lower than the national average, and the plethora of public sector jobs insulate it against the weak private economy.
Moody's marked down the UK's credit rating from AAA to AA1 on Friday, the first time this had happened since 1978, blaming the state of the global economy and the impact of public and private sector retrenchment.
Since net stock of private savings is larger than the net stock of public sector liabilities, Koll reckons that the overall effect on the economy would be positive.
The public sector and its debt will take up a bigger portion of the economy in many countries.
Growing the public sector not only sucks financial resources from the wealth creating part of the economy, it drains productive people from it as well.
The report said that towns and cities with less dynamic private sectors, such as Hull, Doncaster and Newport, would find it more challenging to offset the weak national economy and the ongoing shrinkage of the public sector.
In other words, no matter what the state of the economy, companies in both the private and public sector continue to merge and acquire as a pathway to growth and increased shareholder value.
This is because the public sector is, like in communist countries of old, not part of the economy but all of it.
The current Labour government has added around 700, 000 public-sector jobs to the economy just over a quarter of all the new jobs created.
In the hope of wooing Socialist voters, Mr Evert opposed loosening the public sector's grip on the economy and made jingoistic noises about the Turks.
But productivity growth has been disappointing, partly because so much of the economy is in the public sector.
When the boom period of credit expansion is coupled with growth in public sector borrowing, however, the subsequent negative impact on the economy will be worse.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat Tavish Scott also raised the issue of the economy and Scottish jobs, reminding the first minister that he had said the public sector would have to prepare for several years of fiscal austerity.
Westminster will take the blame, and there will be calls for something called Plan MacB, the Scottish government's claim that it can go against the grain of public sector squeezing across Europe, loosen the purse strings, and get some growth back into the economy.
Coventry is a city famous for car making, but these days it is public sector workers that are driving much of the local economy.
Against that backdrop the Chancellor announced public sector pay rises are to be capped at 1% for two years in his update on the state of the economy.
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Tourism should also benefit from sterling losing its value against other currencies, while Wales' public sector spending, greater as a proportion of its economy than the average for the UK, would also give it a "softer cushion" as the recession went on, he added.
While Naercio believes inflation risk -- currently at 6.5% in Brazil -- is one of the biggest threats to Brazil, with easy lending from public-sector banks hitting consumers if the economy fails to grow.
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There was frustration at public sector wage reductions and the termination of many benefits, although at a grass roots level it was accepted that the economy was in a mess.
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He was particularly prone to quick-fix solutions in economic policy, resorting to regular currency devaluations, expropriations of private firms and inflation-busting public-sector pay rises rather than tackling the economy's underlying structural problems.
Thatcher took office following Britain's "winter of discontent" of 1978-79, in which public-sector workers' strikes over pay brought the economy to a standstill.
But while the economy starts to grow again, and jobs are being created again, the loss of public sector jobs is the main reason why unemployment looks likely to remain stubbornly high.
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