almotamar.net - President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi ratified on Thursday the State's general budget for 2014.

Hadi issued three laws No. 12, 13 and 14 for 2014 approving the 2014 general budget with an amount of over YR 2.9 trillion.

A few days ago, the parliament approved the budget's draft, after intensive discussions and referred it to President as stipulated in the law.

The 2014 ratified budget is estimated at YR2,883,532,192,000 which is slightly more than the 2013 budget of YR 2,766,998,985,000.

The budget's expected deficit is to exceed YR 0.7 trillion (YR 679,264,647,000) compared to nearly YR 0.6 trillion (YR682,787,340,000) in 2013.