{"id":987653799,"date":"2020-05-26T03:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T02:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/message-to-the-nation-of-burkina-faso-on-the-situation-covid-19-april-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T13:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T12:29:39","slug":"message-to-the-nation-of-burkina-faso-on-the-situation-covid-19-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/message-to-the-nation-of-burkina-faso-on-the-situation-covid-19-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Message to the nation of Burkina Faso on the situation COVID-19 &#8211; April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expected consequences of this pandemic on the economy are :<br \/>\n&#8211; Reduction of the growth rate from 6.3% to 2% in 2020;<br \/>\n&#8211; The drop in public revenues, estimated at 306 billion FCFA (511,102,620.00 USD), representing a budget deficit of 5%;<br \/>\n&#8211; A general slowdown in economic activity across all sectors, resulting in cash flow pressures for the State.<\/p>\n<p>\nFaced with such a situation, the government has been instructed to draw up a rectifying finance bill that will take into account the urgent need to review our priorities, in order to meet the following objectives:<br \/>\n&#8211; Supporting healthcare provision;<br \/>\n&#8211; Ensure the country&#8217;s economic recovery;<br \/>\n&#8211; Guarantee budgetary sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>This rectifying finance law will take into account the emergency measures required by the situation in several vital sectors of national life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected consequences of this pandemic on the economy are : &#8211; Reduction of the growth rate from 6.3% to 2% in 2020; &#8211; The drop in public revenues, estimated at 306 billion FCFA (511,102,620.00 USD), representing a budget deficit of 5%; &#8211; A general slowdown in economic activity across all sectors, resulting in cash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653799"}],"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\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987653807,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653799\/revisions\/987653807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}