Budget 2025

Budget 2025: An Equation with Many Unknowns

Listen to the article   The objective of the 2025 budget proposal is to maintain a relative balance between revenues and expenditures, with the aim of keeping the overall deficit under 4.1%, or approximately $190 million. The draft budget submitted in August by caretaker Finance Minister, Youssef Khalil, forecasts a substantial increase in ...

Budget 2025: A Major Gap Between Theory and Reality

  The reinstatement of fiscal and budgetary discipline remains an unattainable goal. By submitting the 2025 draft budget to the government, caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil once again bypassed the laws and regulations governing the preparation of the state budget. In early September, caretaker Finance Minister Youssef Khalil ...