Budget 2019: Expert views

The Budget speech is really an investment speech

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We go through this ritual every year. Singapore's annual incomes and expenditures are presented by the Finance Minister in a so-called Budget speech.

This is followed by an almost two-week period where Parliament sits as the Committee of Supply, involving a series of discussions popularly called the "Budget debate".

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 21, 2019, with the headline The Budget speech is really an investment speech. Subscribe