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Budget 2022
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Public Report on the 2022 Budget: Assessment of the Fiscal, Financial and Economic Assumptions used in the Budget Estimates
This report provides an assessment and analysis of the fiscal, financial and economic assumptions and estimates applied in the formulation of the 2022 Budget. This repo...
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Daily Mirror
National Chamber calls for measures to manage impa...
National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL)IN a statement yesterday recognized the efforts of the government to signal all the stakeholders that they are in a path towards managing fiscal space by estimating budget deficit for 2022 in single digit (8.8 percent)...
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Economy Next
Sri Lanka aims to cut deficit, have non-traditiona...
Sri Lanka aims to make a ‘significant reduction’ in the country’s runaway fiscal deficit in 2022 and have a ‘non-traditional budget’ senior officials said as the country is also facing severe monetary instability due to artificially low i...
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Daily FT
Public Finance Committee clears 2022 Appropriation...
The Appropriation Bill for 2022 has been approved by  the  Committee  on Public  Finance. According to  the  Bill, which  was  tabled  in Parliament,  the total expenditure for 2022 is estima...
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Insight on Budget 2022
Budget Promises: Beyond Parliament 2020
Budget Promises : Beyond Parliament is a...
Steering out of the Debt Crisis: Recipes...
“Steering Out of the Debt Crisis: R...
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PF Decoded : Episode 1
How much debt is too much debt ?   Sri Lanka’s debt has reached unprecedented levels in the recent past. Analyst Anushan Kapilan covers what debt is, how it can be measured and be quantified.&nb...
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VAT to drive revenue growth in 2024
Sri Lankan budgets have consistently overestimated the capacity to raise revenue. Therefore, it is prudent to examine from where the 45% increase in revenue is expected. The chart above shows that more than half the increase (56%) is expecte...
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Sri Lanka’s Current IMF Programme: 110 ongoing com...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published its evaluation of Sri Lanka’s performance in the first phase or ‘first term’ of the ongoing Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, which commenced in March 2023.
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