Next year’s budget (II)
LAHORE:
Marvi Memon has good intentions and good points in her article on the 2010-11 budget.
The allocations are surely not pro-poor and she is right in saying that it is mostly dictated by the IMF. Having said that, this is nothing new — even the previous PML-Q government was involved in a similar kind of budget-making exercise.
Published in the Express Tribune, June 10th, 2010.
Marvi Memon has good intentions and good points in her article on the 2010-11 budget.
The allocations are surely not pro-poor and she is right in saying that it is mostly dictated by the IMF. Having said that, this is nothing new — even the previous PML-Q government was involved in a similar kind of budget-making exercise.
Published in the Express Tribune, June 10th, 2010.