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Will Politics Disturb Healthy Financial Outlook?

February 2008 | Economic Analysis

BMI View: The Finance Ministry's efforts to use the strong revenue position to engineer an investment-driven expenditure programme could be threatened by political disputes - even leaving aside the still poor security situation.

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