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On 31 October, the Minister of Finance submitted the national budget for 2022 to parliament. Total revenue and grants to be received in 2022 is estimated at MVR24.28 billion, with...
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The Government of Maldives’ new estimates for the GDP growth rate for 2021 is at 31.6 percent, while the previous estimate was at 13.5 percent. The latest forecasts of the...
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Minister of Finance Ibrahim Ameer on 31 October submitted a MVR36.925 billion budget to the parliament. The minister said that although the Maldivian economy is recovering strongly, with the measures...
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Decentralisation is a political ideology. Some administrations have sought more centralised, infrastructure development, while others aim to create a synergistic system with central hubs across the archipelago, while yet others...
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Development of Uthuru Thilafalhu (UTF) as a naval dockyard and harbour first came to public attention in August 2013, when then-Minister of Defence Colonel (Retired) Mohamed Nazim inaugurated the project....
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Every administration needs to do a once-over to assess the current state of the infrastructure, what needs to be overhauled, what needs to be improved, and to see where newer...
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In March 2021, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, at the 'Decentralization Policy Coordination Conference,' stated that recent amendments made to the Decentralization Act would empower councils, providing the financial independence and...
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Maldivian democracy is far from perfect. It has been argued on multiple stages that democracy as a system is doomed to fail, yet there are nations where democracy has worked...
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The Maldives, an archipelago of 1,192 islands spread across 22 natural atolls, is divided into 20 administrative atolls. Of the 1,192 islands, 187 are inhabited, with 41 percent of the...
