In November, the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation published a report by Jalel Harchaoui and Colin Powers, titled ‘Libya's public employment crisis’. Using field and desk research, the report looks at the state of public employment in post-2011 Libya, advancing four key claims: a) that public employment is becoming increasingly inadequate as a welfare measure; b) that the transitional rulers’ tethering of public employment to political and/or distributive concerns is driving a decline in the quality of public services and in the performance of state-owned enterprises; c) that the paramilitarization of politics and state is intensifying the socially and geographically uneven distributive effects of public employment; and d) that reversing public employment-related policy failures requires a wider resolution of the prevailing political situation and the restoration of democratic governance.
Read the full report here.