Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe, is this Friday expected to present the revised 2017\/18 national budget.<\/p>\n
In June last year, Parliament passed a K1.3 trillion budget and there are indications that the budget may be revised based on the situation on the ground.<\/p>\n
According to a notice which has been appearing on the Order Paper since last week, the minister will deliver the statement at 12:30pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development will present the mid-year budget review statement on Friday 16th February 2018, immediately before adjournment of the House at 12:30pm,\u201d reads the notice.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of this meeting, Speaker Richard Msowoya announced that the spokesperson for opposition political parties would respond to the statement on Monday, February 19 2018, before general debate starts.<\/p>\n
Members of Parliament are expected to pass the budget by Friday, March 2, the day the House adjourns sine die. <\/em><\/p>\n In earlier interviews, Malawi Congress Party spokesperson on finance, Alexander Kusamba Dzonzi, doubted the 6.1 percent economic growth that the government has been projecting for the year under review.<\/p>\n Alliance for Democracy president, Enock Chihana, said the mid-year budget review is just a waste of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Goodall Gondwe, is this Friday expected to present the revised 2017\/18 national budget. In June last year, Parliament passed a K1.3 trillion budget and there are indications that the budget may be revised based on the situation on the ground. According to a notice which has been appearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60683,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60680\/revisions\/60683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}