
While rebasing the GDP will enable government to borrow more to fund the deficit in the budget and attract investors, they must realise the other end of the sword, that revenue-to-GDP and tax-to-GDP ratios will be revised downward due to the GDP rebasing. There is a fundamental disconnect in the NBS's rebasing of inflation, which impacts both nominal and real GDP.
Kelvin Emmanuel, Economist
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