To implement innovative economic development, the country should have a budget deficit of up to 2 percent of gross domestic product after 2015, Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina said Wednesday in Moscow, speaking to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
"This would require a shift in budget expenditures after 2013," she said. The ministry had developed two scenarios &mdash innovative and primary &mdash for the country's economic development through 2030. The scenario forecasting a reduction in the deficit to zero by 2015 "would require a serious decrease in certain expenditures," Nabiullina said.
Therefore, a moderate budget deficit of no more than 2 percent of GDP has been proposed. Nabiullina said the option is not optimal but "so far we haven't found any other choices for the innovation scenario."
(Interfax)
