According to the agenda of the current parliamentary session the NAMs were supposed to adopt the draft budget estimates yesterday December 7. On December 15th the Minister of Finance is expected to deliver the budget speech and the laying of the Appropriation Bill before Parliament for debate for only 5[Read More…]
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New York Letter With Alagi Yorro Jallow: We Need To Build A Productive Economy
It may be the way I personally think about public policy, after all I am not an economist but believes that mainstream economics was built on the simplifying assumption that people behave rationally. Nobel laureate Professor Richard Thaler has played a significant role in pushing economists from this assumption. He[Read More…]
Building The New Gambia Budget 2018. Let’s Support Our Parliamentarians!
A miracle is taking place in the National Assembly these days as parliamentarians critically discuss the estimates for the National Budget. For the first time we are seeing a large number of Gambian parliamentarians raising pertinent issues about the budget in terms of the budget lines and the allocations as[Read More…]

