Introduction – Core Objectives
As modern national budgets tend to do, Guyana’s 2021 Budget identifies upfront six core objectives, which it sets about to achieve. It also proclaims at the outset: “In keeping with His Excellency’s vision, Budget 2021 seeks to achieve the following objectives for all Guyanese” Briefly, these core objectives are: 1) keeping the population safe from the COVID-19 global pandemic; 2) establishing a diversified and resilient production structure; 3) facilitating the build out of national infrastructure in order to promote and sustain broad-based transformative economic activity; 4) establishing world class social services for both domestic and export use; 5) enhancing the quality and use of IT in the public services; and 6) promoting the rule of law, constitutionality and good governance. All the above is framed under the Budget’s guiding theme: A Path to Recovery, Economic Dynamism and Resilience.
