BORDERS businesses have received more than £40 million of coronavirus funding from the Scottish Government, according to the council. The grants, administered by Scottish Borders Council, include the Strategic Framework Business Fund, Business Support Fund, and the Newly Self Employed Hardship Fund. Councillor Mark Rowley, executive member for economic regeneration and finance, said: “We are continuing to deliver further support, whenever it is made available by the Scottish Government, to help businesses and the self-employed across a wide range of sectors who require further assistance or have not yet been eligible for support until now. Of the £40m funding given so far, SBC has delivered £33.6m through the Business Support Fund; £6.2m through the Strategic Framework Business Fund; £288k through the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund; £165k through the Contingency Fund; and £33k through the Bed and Breakfast Hardship Fund.
Why Afghanistan Is Caught in a Budget Crisis – Again
Every year, parliament rejects the government budget. That’s because there are serious flaws in the planning and budgeting process.
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February 04, 2021
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On top of growing insecurity, pandemic challenges, increasing poverty, and the unclear prospects of peace and stability, the Afghan government yet again failed to pass its national budget.As a direct result, government employees (including teachers and frontline soldiers) have not been paid since December and the operation of ongoing development projects has stopped. The Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan National Assembly, on January 16 rejected the Afghan government’s proposed national nudget for the second time. This rejection was based on what the Wolesi Jirga sees as massive misappropriation of the budget, the excessive, unchecked allocation and spending authority of the president, and the unrepresentative and unbala
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Hon’ble Speaker,
I present the Budget for the year 2021-2022.
1. Honourable Speaker, the preparation of this Budget was undertaken in circumstances like never before. We knew of calamities that have affected a country or a region within a country, but what we have endured with COVID-19 through 2020 is sui generis.
2. When I presented the Budget 2020-21, we could not have imagined that the global economy, already in throes of a slowdown, would be pushed into an unprecedented contraction.
3. We could not have also imagined then that our people as those in other countries would have to endure the loss of near and dear ones and suffer hardships brought about due to a health crisis.