Congo Town, Jan. 15 -- The Government of Liberia, through the payroll management training has kickoff training to provide insight for personal analysts, human resource personnel, and comptrollers, among others, on payroll management.

Making special statement Thursday, January 14 at the start of the training, Deputy Finance Minister for Budget Tanneh Bruson said the initiative which started two years ago is geared at securing additional fiscal space to enable government implement activities identified in the Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development.

"We found that the wage bill was enormous and that it crowded out the fiscal space. To understand numbers, we found it necessary to do a nose dive into compensation and related expenditur...