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To hire and retain the young, make working for civil service attractive

The looming crisis in the public service occasioned by the large number of ageing civil servants should be a wake-up call to the country's policy makers.

More than 36,074 members of staff in the Public Service Commission (PSC) – who account for over half of the country's workforce in national government ministries and State departments – are over 46 years of age.

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