Treasury rejects economists’ ‘attacks’ on budget
Treasury officials tell MPs the proposal by a group of economists that government spend more ignores SA’s growing debt spiral
03 July 2020 - 11:58
The Treasury made a robust defence of its supplementary budget in parliament on Friday, saying attacks against it by a group of economists and civil society organisations are riddled with misrepresentations.
Treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane was responding to criticisms of the supplementary budget by a group of economists and the Budget Justice Coalition on the grounds that it is an inadequate response to the magnitude of the crisis precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic in that not enough is allocated to government spending to address it...
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