The budget estimates for this fiscal year are consistent with those of the 2014-2015 fiscal year which also had a total budget of 122.6 billion gourdes. However, internal and external obstacles had prompted the government to revise the budget to 109.7 billion gourdes. "Because of the decline in resources from the PetroCaribe funds (49%) and moderate resort to the issuance of treasury bills (1.5 billion gourdes in the amending budget against 5.46 billion gourdes in the initial budget), the overall budget decreases by 11.8%)
The government, for