Moody’s has effectively given the government just over three months – till the next Budget In February 2020 – to stabilise government debt and deal with high-risk state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This can essentially be achieved only two ways: dramatically slash the public sector wage bill through large-scale retrenchments, and drastically reconfigure the entire SOE landscape.
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