COVID-19 trips up well-laid economic plans

“We have listened and heard our people. That is why the next BDP government will lead the country on a path to economic transformation and create jobs that will roll back the scourge of poverty.”

This is the essence of the BDP’s economic promise, as declared in the manifesto which won the elections last October. In fact, the party committed more than two thirds of its 56-page manifesto to various pledges of economic transformation and inclusion, detailing how new legal and policy reviews would be used to move the nation towards “shared prosperity”.