Public Sector

Public Sector Investment Program 2022

5 min read
The Public Sector Investment Program (PSIP) is the main tool through which the government sets out to achieve economic development objectives and deliver on the pledges it has made to...

Public finance in review

4 min read
The year 2021 has been marked as a challenging year in terms of the Maldives' public finance management, considering that only MVR14.7 billion in revenue was raised in 2020 due...

The curious case of Mahloof

4 min read
The current Minister of Youth and Sports, with a prominent focus on football, Ahmed Mahloof has been topping the charts as one of the more controversial scandals of 2021. 

Political parties; a snapshot

3 min read
A political party is an organised group of people who share similar beliefs about how the country should be run and how to solve the major issues facing the country....

BML needs to be held accountable

3 min read
On 29 November 2021 the Maldives’ retail economy was virtually brought to a standstill. The Bank of Maldives, while doing some routine upgrades — that the company had failed to...

The unsustainable wage bill

2 min read
The government, in its proposed budget for 2022, estimated expenditure on wages, salaries and other allowances for state employees at MVR9.7 billion, a 13 percent increase over the MVR8.2 billion...

Increasing government expenditure

4 min read
The Government Budget includes details of expenditures to be incurred during the year on public goods, infrastructure projects, social protection services, and other spending on economic development projects. The annual...