{"id":278841,"date":"2019-06-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUWh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMi9ldGhpb3BpYXMtYnVkZ2V0LWlnbml0ZXMtZGViYXRlLWluLXRoZS1wYXJsaWFtZW50L9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:12","slug":"parliamentarians-said-ethiopias-draft-regional-budget-still-raised-fairness-and-equity-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278841","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentarians said Ethiopia\u2019s draft regional budget still raised fairness and equity questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-June 2019 Borkena reported that members of Ethiopia\u2019s House of Representatives debated the draft budget for the next Ethiopian fiscal year and questioned whether transfers to federal regions were fair, saying past allocation practices had fueled conflict and that a research team formed a year earlier had not yet finished reform work.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Parliamentarians said Ethiopia\u2019s draft regional budget still raised fairness and equity questions\" \/>\n<p>Finance Minister Ahmed Shide presented a draft of about 387 billion birr\u2014roughly $12 billion\u2014tied to a 9 percent growth forecast and funded mainly by tax revenue, with a large share aimed at education, health, and other social programs, while lawmakers pressed for clearer infrastructure-allocation rules.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as fiscal politics archive, the Borkena report dates the fairness debate inside parliament around the 2019\/20 budget proposal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/12\/ethiopias-budget-ignites-debate-in-the-parliament\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s budget for next fiscal year ignites debate in the parliament&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comAs draft budget for Ethiopia&#8217;s next fiscal year is proposed in the parliament, members express conern over equity and fairness of the budgetary allocations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1axr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755129,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278841\/revisions\/755129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}