Goodall says budget risk cuts if World Bank withold K50bn support
Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development Goodall Gondwe has expressed the hope that the meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be fruitful and that would lead to World Bank and Europeam Union (EU) to disburse the budgetary support projected at K50 billion , saying failure to release the money will trigger cuts in the K1.3 trillion financial plan.
Gondwe said the IMF would be interested to know the performance of the reforms in particular structural conditionalitied some ministries were expected to meet in the period under review.
He also said the global lender will check “if there has been compliance of ruled and regulations such as bank reconciliations.”
The government’s purse keeper said they done “quit well” from June 30 2018.
However, Gondwe said Treasury have overspent by a point three percent of GDP (gross domestic product), which he said “is not much”.
Gondwe said IMF would be pleased to note the positive macroeconomic situation prevailing in the country where the inflation has been slashed to single digits and exchange rate is stabe.
‘The Finance Minister said if they will not get the budgetary support, Treasury will be forced to cut funding in other recurrent transaction or ORT of a number of ministries and departments.
However, he said the cuts will spare the Malawi Defence Force and the Police. Key ministries of Health, Education and Agriculture will not be affected by the anticipated cuts.
Gondwe said the cuts would be to the tune of K32 billion from the recurrent expenditure – about 3.4 percent of the budget.
He said government would also cut about K28 billion from the development account to meet the K50 billion budget deficit in the absence of the anticipated support.
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Are WB n IMF not seeing the rampant theft by these guys in the govt, yet they wanna talk about giving the budget support aid. That money too will be stolen by the blue thieves n stealers….Hang on donors. The budget support will have no impact on the socio economic welfare of the mass. APM n his honeymooners trip to US will cost tax payers over USD 3 million. How can the donors put money into a rotten corrupted government. Save it for after May 2019.
Honourable Gondwe, we all know that IMF will not support the release of budgetary support. We all know that the DPP-led government is unable to meet milestones which it signed off a year ago. DPP-led govt is so used to not taking their own promises and pronouncements seriously. You can fool Malawians but certainly not IMF, World Bank or EU. These are serious institutions as you might be aware honourable Gondwe (you were there). This DPP-led government has let Malawians down on so many fronts and yet you keep making pronouncements that you have achieved more than any govt in the past. IMF, World Bank and EU have a different view and they can prove it through Performance Measurements Matrices. To just prove how bad DPP-led govt is at managing resources; it is now looking at cutting the recurrent and developmental budgets. Any sane Minister of Finance would have said “we will tighten internal controls to significantly reduce fruitless and wasteful expenditure which runs in billions of Kwachas). but obviously for the DPP-led govt that would mean closing the looting tap which it is not prepared to do. Ordinary and innocent people will continue to suffer due the uncaring DPP-led govt.
Cut or no cut what I am able to tell is that the exorbitant taxes in the country can fund most of what we want to do. Tax on water, tax on sugar, tax on matches, tax on fuel, taxes on salaries, tax on cell phone units, taxes on each and every commodity we buy.
LEARN NOT TO STEAL IS THE ANSWER! A COUNTRY WITHOUT FISCAL DISCIPLINE. Perpetual borrowers
So how are you going to finance free secondary education?
And nandolo politics?
The same Godwe yesterday told the whole world that there is nothing the government can do to stop abuse of public money ie he encourages looting and corruption without fear of consequences. He further said the State house and OPC should not be audited. Today you tell the donors to give you more budget support. If you were a donor what could you have done? Trust Malawi with more money or not. Just ask any Malawian if he or she trusts you with his or her taxes.
I personally took a survey to ask ordinary Malawians if they trust their government with their taxes. The answer was overwhelmingly NO!!!!!
Mavoto za treasury ndi Ben botolo, amaenyo wayamba ku ngwira nchito malawi economy wayamba mavuto, A liability in DPP