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Expenditure

Insights and analysis of government expenditure.

Defence Sector Claims Nearly Half of State Salaries

According to the 2023 Budget Estimates, 15% of total recurrent expenditure of the government will be spent on salaries for government employees for the year 2023.

From The PF Wire

Cabinet approves transaction advisors for sale of...

In a significant development towards State Owned Enterprise (SOE) reforms, the Cabinet of Ministers at its meeting on Monday approved the recommended transaction advisors for seven identified entities.

Sri Lanka’s Sathosa restructuring will see CWE and...

The restructuring of Sri Lanka's Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE), also known as Sathosa, will involve merging CWE with the state-run Lanka Sathosa retail chain. The proposed restructuring aims to improve the financial standing...

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

Insight on Expenditure

Large Scale Infrastructure Small Scale D...

Defence Sector Claims Nearly Half of Sta...

According to the 2023 Budget Estimates, 1...

The Cost of Inflation: Sustaining 2015 C...

Sri Lanka's is set to experience a 160% increase in nominal GDP from the 2015 levels of LKR 1...

Total SOE Losses in the first four month...

During the first four months of 2022 the cumulative loss of State-Ow...

Government Expenditure from 2012-2021

Government Expenditure increased by 126% over the past decade. Expen...

How did the government finance its expen...

The infographics provides details on government expenditure and the...

Fuel Price Tracker : Methodology

FUEL PRICE TRACKER

A Sri Lankan Household Spends 24% of Av...

Sri Lanka's fuel prices increased rapidly within the last few mo...

Fiscal Performance From January to Novem...

The following infographic compares Sri Lankas' fiscal performance from January to Novemb...

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Uncovering Sri Lanka's Debt Trail: Who owns Sri La...

The chart below depicts the ownership of Sri Lanka's external debt as at end of Sept 2022.

Sri Lanka met 25% of IMF commitments and failed 1...

Sri Lanka had met 25% of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of March 2023 but had failed on one, according to 'The IMF Tracker', a new online tool launched by Verit&ea...

Sri Lanka's Unique Revenue Problem

Tax to GDP and GDP per capita for most South Asian countries shows a positive relationship as can be show by the infographic below. For example Bhutan had a tax to GDP of 10% in and GDP per capita of 4% in the year 2000....