“The budget does not focus sufficiently on the effectivity of spendings, or on attaining certain goals in politics,” Latchezar Bogdanov from the Institute for Market Economics commented for the BNR.
The biggest budgeting problem is what the policies are behind the expenditures made, he said. But in this instance, instead of looking for a targeted effect and addressing the problems, the easy road is being taken – child benefits for all children, an additional 50 Leva for all pensioners, the economist said.
“That is income policy at the cost of a large budget deficit,” he said. Latchezar Bogdanov added that there was no vision of investment or job creation stimuli.
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