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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
Featured Insight
Economic Policies in an Election Year: Suggested Priorities
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engagement and debt sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka.
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Total SOE Losses in the first four months of 2022 Outweigh Annual Losses in 2021
During the first four months of 2022 the cumulative loss of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) amounted to LKR 860 BN. This figure outweighs the annual loss of SOEs in 2021. The top 3 contributors to the increase of the...
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The Morning
SL pays Rs. 1,559.7 b in interest payments
Sri Lanka's interest payments on foreign and domestic debt reached Rs. 1,559.7 billion in the first eight months of 2024, a 2.2% increase from Rs. 1,525.7 billion in the same period of 2023. ...
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Daily Mirror
Fiscal deficit through November tops Rs.1.7tn
The deficit in the budget hit an all-time high in January-November 2021 period, as the latest fiscal data showed revenue slippages and expenses over and above what was budgeted and what was spent a year ago.
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Sunday Times
Rs. 5,000 allowance for SOE employees, but with co...
The Government has decided to provide a monthly allowance of Rs. 5000 to employees of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) such as corporations and statutory boards
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Insight on Expenditure
Ministers and State Ministers – Cost of...
Did you know that the cost of maintaining an office for a cabinet and...
Interest Cost Accounts for 71.7 percent...
The domesti...
Sri Lanka’s Budget Cycle
A government budget is its annual financial statement containing expected revenue and expenditure...
New Government Recruitment Schemes: An i...
The Government has recently pledged to hi...
Allocation of Government Expenditure fro...
The Vote on Account from September to December was passed on the 28th of August 2020....
Background on Vote on Account
Today, 28 August 2020, is the last day of the debate in the Parliament...
The Money Spent on Parliament: Where doe...
In 2017, LKR 2,841 Million was spent on P...
The Fiscal Impact of Manifesto Promises
Political par...
Government expenditure on elections (201...
The Election Commissioner recently stated that the cost of the 2020 Ge...
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Earnings from Tourism: Are we getting it right?
Sri Lanka is expecting the earnings from tourism to play a significant role in driving the recovery of Sri Lanka’s foreign currency. However, there are important concerns accuracy of the estimated earnings from tourism....
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Sri Lanka Has The Highest Inflation Amongst South...
Sri Lanka, amidst facing one of its worst economic crisis, is currently experiencing rapidly rising inflation. The inflation increased to 15.1% year-on-year in February 2022, a 13-year high. When compared against other...
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“Sugar Scam” is not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalli...
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive acade...
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