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The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis - 20 pcs Bananas (Sour Plantains) -1kg Milk Rice – 10 pcs Aluwa – 15 pcs Butter Cake – 1kg Kavum – 20 pcs Dodol – 1kg Mun Kavum- 15 pcs
Featured Insight
The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis - 20 pcs Bananas (Sour Plantains) -1kg Milk Rice – 10 pcs Aluwa – 15 pcs Butter Cake – 1kg Kavum – 20 pcs Dodol – 1kg Mun Kavum- 15 pcs
Featured Insight
The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis - 20 pcs Bananas (Sour Plantains) -1kg Milk Rice – 10 pcs Aluwa – 15 pcs Butter Cake – 1kg Kavum – 20 pcs Dodol – 1kg Mun Kavum- 15 pcs
Featured Insight
The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis - 20 pcs Bananas (Sour Plantains) -1kg Milk Rice – 10 pcs Aluwa – 15 pcs Butter Cake – 1kg Kavum – 20 pcs Dodol – 1kg Mun Kavum- 15 pcs
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Tax concessions account for half of the budget deficit
All sorts of tax concessions (reported as “tax expenditure”)costs the government almost a trillion rupees a year in potential revenue. In the financial year 2023/24 the tax expenditure statement published by the gove...
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Rs. 3,000 allowance for pensioners from next week
Rs. 3,000 interim allowance for all pensioners starting next week. President Anura Kumara...
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Sri Lanka central bank officials to be summoned to...
A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee has called central bank officials to a meeting with party leaders due to controversy over significant salary increases they awarded themselves. This action follows criticism from legislators who are concerned about the central bank's financial management s...
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Local Government Polls will cost Rs. 10 billion: E...
The conduct of elections to the local authorities will cost at least Rs.10 billion, an official said. https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking_news/LG-Polls-will-cost-Rs-10-bil...
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Budget Promises 2018: Most Closed Instit...
Are our ministries open about the progres...
Budget Promises 2018: Openness of Promis...
By making it easier for people to find ou...
Budget Promises 2018: Forgotten Promises
What are the forgotten promises from Budg...
Progress of Budget Promises 2017 vs 2018
Is the government getting better at imple...
Budget Promises 2018: Progress of Promis...
Every year, the government makes promises...
The new Ministers of Finance: Will their...
The annual bu...
Education and Health in Budget 2016: Gra...
Governments make attractive promises when...
The Budget is not Mainly about Money, it...
Budgeting is a governance process that dr...
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The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of U...
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025.
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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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Large Scale Infrastructure, Small Scale Disclosure...
This article was compiled by Subhashini Abeysinghe and Chathuni Pabasara. Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an eco...
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