Today the economy stands at a crucial crossroads. As crucial as in 2006, when a new team of policy makers, known as the TINAs (There Is No Alternative) set out to craft a new socio-economic model - a model based mostly on the reports of the Bretton Woods institutions, namely the IMF Report "Fiscal Adjustment Strategy and Measures to Protect Low-Income Households"and "Mauritius: From Preferences to Global Competitiveness" , an unpublished World Bank Report .
Rattan Chand Khushiram, an avid contributor on economic issues, better known under the pen-name RChand. Headed the Economic Analysis and Research (EARS) unit of the ex-MEPD and was till recently, Director of the Research and Sustainability Division (ReSD) at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED)
Friday, December 26, 2014
Budget 2015 : Future orientations !!!
Published in L'Express, 26 December 2014
Today the economy stands at a crucial crossroads. As crucial as in 2006, when a new team of policy makers, known as the TINAs (There Is No Alternative) set out to craft a new socio-economic model - a model based mostly on the reports of the Bretton Woods institutions, namely the IMF Report "Fiscal Adjustment Strategy and Measures to Protect Low-Income Households"and "Mauritius: From Preferences to Global Competitiveness" , an unpublished World Bank Report .
Today the economy stands at a crucial crossroads. As crucial as in 2006, when a new team of policy makers, known as the TINAs (There Is No Alternative) set out to craft a new socio-economic model - a model based mostly on the reports of the Bretton Woods institutions, namely the IMF Report "Fiscal Adjustment Strategy and Measures to Protect Low-Income Households"and "Mauritius: From Preferences to Global Competitiveness" , an unpublished World Bank Report .
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Damning Audit Report :The Programme-Based Budgeting?
Published in Le Mauricien, 23 Dec 2014
The
National Audit Office's Report shows again and again that wastage and
unnecessary expenditures have continued unabated. It is unacceptable that at a
moment where everyone was bearing the brunt of the continuing global and the
consequent local slowdown, our Ministries and Departments and State-owned
enterprises were profligate with taxpayers’ money .
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