Comments on: Three Key Questions Concerning the Budget: Who gains? Who pays? & Will it work? http://mahoshada.com/2005/12/three-key-questions-concerning-the-budget-who-gains-who-pays-will-it-work/ Commentaries on Development and Economics Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:25:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Three Key Questions Concerning the Budget: Who gains? Who pays? & Will it work? by: sittingnut http://mahoshada.com/2005/12/three-key-questions-concerning-the-budget-who-gains-who-pays-will-it-work/#comment-14 Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:43:09 +0000 http://mahoshada.com/2005/12/three-key-questions-concerning-the-budget-who-gains-who-pays-will-it-work/#comment-14 main problem with this kind of budget is that government have been allowed get away with them for so many years. look at the coverage of this budget in the local press, criticism has come mainly from the opposition party which will be dismissed by the public as usual politics. where are the economists? business lobby? civil society? most are either keeping mum or offering conditional praise. there are more realistic assessment of the budget online than in whole of local offline press. even what little criticism there is, is usually confined to business pages of english papers, preaching to the converted. any chance your column being translated and published in sinhala and tamil papers? anyway i think only way ordinary ppl will understand the consequences of such fiscal profligacy, will be when a full blown economic crisis hits here <i>without the aid of war.</i> main problem with this kind of budget is that government have been allowed get away with them for so many years.
look at the coverage of this budget in the local press, criticism has come mainly from the opposition party which will be dismissed by the public as usual politics. where are the economists? business lobby? civil society? most are either keeping mum or offering conditional praise. there are more realistic assessment of the budget online than in whole of local offline press. even what little criticism there is, is usually confined to business pages of english papers, preaching to the converted.
any chance your column being translated and published in sinhala and tamil papers?
anyway i think only way ordinary ppl will understand the consequences of such fiscal profligacy, will be when a full blown economic crisis hits here without the aid of war.

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