{"id":987521328,"date":"2021-01-25T03:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/n72-8-billion-budget-for-2020-21-financial-year-announced\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:44:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:44:47","slug":"n72-8-billion-budget-for-2020-21-financial-year-announced","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/n72-8-billion-budget-for-2020-21-financial-year-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"N$72.8 billion budget for 2020\/21 financial year announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Iipumbu Shiimi on Wednesday tabled the national budget for the financial year 2020\/21 totalling N$72.8 billion from N$66.5 billion budgeted in the 2019\/20 financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Shiimi in a budget statement said the single-year budget reflects the commensurate urgency of addressing the elevated once-off needs arising from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Shiimi added that an emergency budget of N$727 million was front-loaded to the health sector, which the Ministry of Health and Social Services is making progress in executing.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020\/21 budget accords 49.5% of the N$64.2 billion non-interest expenditure to social sectors. For the current budget, the health ministry is allocated another N$7.95 billion, while the Ministry of Basic Education, Arts and Culture receives N$14.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/economist.com.na\/53208\/markets\/n72-8-billion-budget-for-2020-21-financial-year-announced\/\">Read the article from the <em>Namibia Economist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Iipumbu Shiimi on Wednesday tabled the national budget for the financial year 2020\/21 totalling N$72.8 billion from N$66.5 billion budgeted in the 2019\/20 financial year. Shiimi in a budget statement said the single-year budget reflects the commensurate urgency of addressing the elevated once-off needs arising from the impact of COVID-19 pandemic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":987532207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}