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AfriSam hosts annual budget breakdown event

03 March 2022, Published under Cement News

Speaking at AfriSam ’s recent National Budget Breakdown function, an annual event now in its fifth year, Dr Azar Jammine, director and chief economist of Econometrix, gave a thumbs up to the 2022 budget, saying it was “highly satisfactory with no harm.” Howeverm he cautioned that servicing the national debt was becoming increasingly onerous and now accounted for 14 per cent of government expenditure. He also expressed the view that there was nothing in the budget "to make one believe sus...