The value of goods imported turned out to be at the black or open market rates, thereby defeating the objective of providing goods to consumers at affordable rates.
Had the programme operated as planned, markets would have been stocked with food and other essential goods. Instead, drug, food, and fuel shortages remained, and prices skyrocketed.
The government failed to repay the borrowed money and entered arbitration proceedings initiated by the Qatari bank at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
