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HomeNewsBusinessEconomyQuick Take | Off-budget financing: There's no such thing as a free lunch

Quick Take | Off-budget financing: There's no such thing as a free lunch

Essentially, the government is able to understate its expenditure by getting public sector units to spend money, which would otherwise have been part of the budget. As a result the total liability of the central government at the end of FY 2016-17 is actually 50.5 percent of GDP rather than 45.5 percent reported by the Centre, according to the CAG.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia
June 10, 2020 / 20:10 IST
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