Cabinet to approve and submit to Parliament a 2018 draft budget in line with the macroeconomic framework agreed under the ECF arrangement. The budget will include a transfer to further reduce DAB’s lender of last resort exposure to Kabul Bank, consistent with repaying the remaining balance in full by end-2019. The budget will include an appendix that lists carried-over expenditures per each ministry.
Introduced at R1 for R3.
Rationale: Preserve macroeconomic stability