Since 2015 the budgets have been afflicted with an unfortunate disease: over-optimism. This is especially with regards to revenue expectations. In the wake of dwindling revenues from falling oil prices in 2015, the new government stated its intention to plug leakages and “grow” non-oil revenues.
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