PARTLY FACETIOUS: Why doesn’t he reduce current expenditure?
“So good news hunh!”
“Yeah the Finance Minister has pledged to achieve a surplus of 1.6 percent of GDP.”
“And that means what?”
“That’s kinda smartish of him, primary surplus is defined as minus interest on loans.”
“Right so that means if the budget document is anything to go by the expenditure would be minus 8.2 trillion rupees – 7.19 trillion rupees markup on domestic debt and 1 trillion rupees mark up on foreign debt.”
“Since when did you become a detail........
