Sudan’s First Year: Which Economic Reforms Must Come First?
A new government’s economic programme should be judged in places where its decisions become tangible: a clinic with medicines, a teacher receiving a salary, a farmer getting a broken pump repaired, a household able to buy food without exhausting its income. Those outcomes require choices about money, prices, ownership and power. They also require an order of work. Cutting a subsidy is an administrative decision. Making an adequate replacement reach a displaced family, every month, is a larger institutional task. ...