Rating Mboweni’s budget: Good plan, but risks lie in implementation
This was a high-stakes budget from Mboweni. It is also a brave budget for a country in dismal fiscal trouble. It is, in fact, exactly the budget SA needs at this point
25 June 2020 - 06:00
In scoring finance minister Tito Mboweni’s much-anticipated supplementary budget out of 10, we broke the answer up into three components: first, the current fiscal situation; second, the quality of the plan as outlined in the document; and third, the executability of the plan.
SA’s fiscal situation: 1/10..
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