The corridors are dark in Lebanon’s Public Transport and Railway Administration. In a country with almost no public transport, these civil servants have little to do. Public sector waste is a huge problem for Lebanon, which suffers from one of the highest levels of public debt in the world. “We have massive plans to revive reform and activate the public transport sector,” its director, Ziad Nasr, told Reuters, including restoring the railway and setting up a proper bus service. Politicians with their minds on votes rammed through a popular public sector pay rise in its first state budget in 12 years last year.

Source: Egypt Independent February 05, 2018 13:52 UTC