Budget 2024: The big picture and the IMF hand

Budget briefcase during the Budget Highlights for FY 23/24 at the Parliament on June 15, 2023 [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Tomorrow is Budget Day and it closes Budget Week. Thanks to our courts, it has also been Finance Bill week.

This piece is written with the understanding that the Budget (our spending side) is pretty much done after last week's National Assembly Supply Committee debate on proposed appropriations for the 2024-25 fiscal year.