{"id":42127,"date":"2019-06-22T10:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T07:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=42127"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T07:42:59","slug":"economy-cannot-crush-kasaija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/economy-cannot-crush-kasaija\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy cannot crush \u2013 Kasaija"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Moses Kyeyune.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s economy will remain afloat as long as the government is in charge, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has said.<\/p>\n<p>Kasaija has been addressing a gathering of district councilors, government officials and civil society at the ongoing post budget dialogue meeting at Kon Tiki Hotel Hoima.<\/p>\n<p>He says that whereas the country remains heavily indebted, a lot is being done to have favorable balance of payments.<\/p>\n<p>The total public debt captured in the Budget speech stands at 42.7 trillion shillings, in the face of a 40.5 trillion deficit budget.<\/p>\n<p>The economy has also been flagged to be standing at a GDP of 109 trillion shillings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moses Kyeyune. Uganda\u2019s economy will remain afloat as long as the government is in charge, Finance Minister Matia Kasaija has said. Kasaija has been addressing a gathering of district councilors, government officials and civil society at the ongoing post budget dialogue meeting at Kon Tiki Hotel Hoima. He says that whereas the country remains heavily indebted, a lot is being done to have favorable balance of payments. The total public debt captured in the Budget speech stands at 42.7 trillion shillings, in the face of a 40.5 trillion deficit budget. The economy has also been flagged to be standing at a GDP of 109 trillion shillings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":33890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}