Thursday was one of the busiest days in any Business Journalist's calendar. However Budget day, 2014, in today's form is no longer the secret it always was under the old constitution. By April the estimates are out, and most accounting/audit firms and economists begin to do their analyses of how Government will spend it's monies. For a government that has been criticised to live above its means, we were keen to find out how the Cabinet Secretary, Henry Rotich was planning to raise the 1.8 trillion shilling 2014/2015 budget. Most economists agree however that we as a country are still within manageable debt levels as far as international standards are able to go by, therefore the question of whether we will borrow the money and the impact of this did not feature as much of a question. These were the key issues I wanted to centre on: 1. Is this a growth focused budget? 2. Is the budget deficit a real problem, REALLY ? 3. Are we convinced that treasury will ach...
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