The upcoming 2026/27 national budget is neither the time for austerity nor indiscriminate spending, economist Dr Indera Sagewan has said as she called on the Government to redirect scarce fiscal resources towards productivity, foreign-exchange earning capacity and investment.
In an interview with Express Business, Sagewan said the immediate priority should be economic stabilisation, coupled with a deliberate shift towards growth that reduces Trinidad and Tobago’s dependence on energy revenues.
