A complicated process unfolds each year to produce a national Budget introduced with great fanfare by the minister of finance. The process involves all government entities motivating for a share of the pie, and requires political alignment to the priorities outlined by the President during his annual State of the Nation Address.
But what is ultimately delivered is a virtual carbon copy of the previous year’s Budget, with a few tweaks here and there – which is a virtual carbon copy of the years before that. Because it’s based on a template to fund the pattern and structure of government […]
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