“I was wondering….”

“Hey, a country’s survival always trumps the economy, so I reckon defence outlay will increase in the forthcoming budget.”

“That’s not what I was wondering about?”

“Oh well the budget will have to be approved by the International Monetary Fund or else all external resource inflows will dry up – rollovers, multilateral and bilateral loans as we need around 19.5 billion dollars for next year to…”

“Nope wasn’t wondering about........

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