 The government propagated a whole range of new economic policies, introducing a minimum wage and virtually eliminating the right to fire workers.Total spending on education nearly tripled (from Z$227.6 million to Z$628.0 million), as did government spending on healthcare (from Z$66.4 million to Z$188.6 million), between 1979 and 1990.Expenditure on public-sector employment rose by 60%, and on the civil service by 12% per annum over the course of the 1980s.