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Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance - Sri Lanka Has Not Had One, For Three And A Half Decades
This article was compiled by Professor Mick Moore. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a non-resident academic fellow at Verité Research and member of Verité’s Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group. Professor Mick’s broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in developing countries.
Featured Insight
Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance - Sri Lanka Has Not Had One, For Three And A Half Decades
This article was compiled by Professor Mick Moore. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a non-resident academic fellow at Verité Research and member of Verité’s Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group. Professor Mick’s broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in developing countries.
Featured Insight
Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance - Sri Lanka Has Not Had One, For Three And A Half Decades
This article was compiled by Professor Mick Moore. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a non-resident academic fellow at Verité Research and member of Verité’s Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group. Professor Mick’s broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in developing countries.
Featured Insight
Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance - Sri Lanka Has Not Had One, For Three And A Half Decades
This article was compiled by Professor Mick Moore. Professor Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a non-resident academic fellow at Verité Research and member of Verité’s Sri Lanka Economic Policy Group. Professor Mick’s broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in developing countries.
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Budget 2023
Budget 2023
Detailed analysis of the 2023 Budget
Sri Lanka's Fiscal for Targets for 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023: Government revenue is expected to be 11.3% of GDP in 2023, according to projections in the Budget 2023.
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Sunday Times
New tax hike hurts high income earners
The Government’s desperate move of increasing income tax to a very high level under the new tax reforms fulfilling one of the commitments for the US$2.9 billion IMF extended fund facility has hit hard the high income earners and professionals below the belt.
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Sunday Times
Treasury orders ministries to further reduce budge...
The Finance Ministry has issued a fresh circular, directing ministries to further slash their budgets by six percent... https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230122/news/tre...
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Economy Next
Sri Lanka parliament nod for 2023 budget with high...
Sri Lanka’s parliament passed 2023 budget that has proposed higher taxes and some basic reforms to content the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and secure $2.9 billion loan from the global lender to move out of the island nation&rsquo...
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Insight on Budget 2023
Progress unknown of budget proposals whi...
The 25 highest-value expenditure proposal...
Sri Lanka's fiscal performance in 2023 s...
Sri Lanka's fiscal performance in 2023 shows a mixed landscape o...
National Budget Process in 60 Seconds!
The video below describes the National Bu...
Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lif...
The lack of transparency on the implement...
Sri Lanka's best kept secret
The lack of fiscal transparency is a key...
Where's the promised land?
Land access has been identified as a cruc...
Does Sri Lanka Need More Rules or Better...
The government of Sri Lanka proposed introducing a new law to establish stronger rules on public...
Expenditure Proposals from the 2023 Budg...
The following infographics present some of the key expenditure proposals presented in the 2023 Bu...
Sectoral Allocations for the 2023 Budget
Sectoral allocations from the 2023 Budget, ranging from defence to water and sanitation
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Total and primary deficits run in opposite directi...
The governments primary deficit improved in the first half of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2022, while the budget deficit worsened increasing from LKR -903 Bn to LKR -1,243 Bn which implies a significant 93 percent increase a...
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Sri Lanka's best kept secret
The lack of fiscal transparency is a key factor that contributed to the present crisis and loss of credibility of the government, both at home and abroad. Several commitments made by the government in its agreement with the International Mon...
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Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an eco...
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