‘The national budget is a document that … authorises the government to raise revenues, incur debts and effect expenditures in order to achieve certain goals …. The process of allocation of resources to different institutions and purposes is essentially a political, rather than purely technocratic one.
Any attempt to address content of budget allocation without looking at political process is therefore unlikely to be helpful’ (What’s behind the budget? www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/2422.pdf).
There can be no denying the 2017 budget has been able to bring together a prodigious amount of supporters, usual sympathizers and downright enemies of