Salaries take up 12 percent of Morocco's GDP

Moroccan minister of Civil service and administrative reforms, El Hussein Aziz, said salaries in Morocco take up 12% of the GDP.

In an interview with "Al Alam" daily, the minister said this amount is still increasing and reforming the administration requires limiting the number of civil servants and rationalizing human resources.

He added that one of the most important targets of the administrative reform plan is to improve the quality of administrative services. Asked on unjustified absences by civil servants, he argued that there are no precise figures and the prime minister sent last September to all administrations a note urging them to enforce the law against unjustified absence cases.