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Budget 2022
Detailed analysis of the 2022 budget.
Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
24 expenditure proposals and 5 regulatory proposals were tracked in this assessment. Expenditure proposals refer to those proposals that involve capital expenditure by the government distributed across ministries etc. Regulatory proposals re...
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Daily Mirror
First quarter budget deficit expands 21% amid shar...
The fiscal deficit for the first three months of 2022 expanded by 21.2% to Rs. 484.3 billion over the same period in 2021, signalling another year of a stretched budget.
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Daily News
Budget to transform market economy into a producti...
Budget 2022 includes the use of Sri Lanka’s geographical advantages to strengthen the economy as well as measures to mitigate the foreign exchange issue it faces. The budget also includes a number of proposals to revive the economy by successfully coping with th...
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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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Insight on Budget 2022
Total Revenue Estimates : Govt and Verit...
The government has consistently overestim...
Underestimation of Sri Lanka’s Central G...
Since 2020, t...
Public Report on the 2022 Budget: Assess...
This report provides an assessment and an...
Budget 2022 : Water Supply
Budget 2022: Health Sector
Budget 2022 : Education Sector
 Ministerial Allocation of Government Ex...
Here’s a breakdown of ministerial a...
Sectoral Breakdown of Expenditure Propos...
Here’s a breakdown of sectoral allo...
Government Budget balances : 2000 - 2022
The following infographic depicts the gov...
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Backwards in blacklisting: Enabling corruption in...
Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an economist specializing in international trade. Subhashini has worked for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly 10 year...
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Defence budget for uniforms and diets alone up by...
Based on the 2024 budget estimates, expenditure on uniforms and diets in the defence sector is projected to increase by a significant LKR 75 billion, a 258 percent rise compared to 2022. 
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Sri Lanka's No. 1 export to the US faces a potenti...
On 2 April, US President Donald Trump imposed a 44 percent tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the United States. With apparel comprising 64 percent of these exports—valued at nearly USD 1.8 billion in 2023—Sri Lanka’s apparel...
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