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New Year “Kevili” Table Costs 7 Percent More in 2025

The cost of preparing a traditional kevili table for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year has risen by 7 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year. It remains more than twice as expensive as in 2019.

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Sri Lanka’s annual loss due to government tender c...

Sri Lanka loses approximately 1% of its GDP (around Rs. 300 billion annually) due to corruption in government tender procurements, mainly caused by a lack of transparency, with less than 35% of tenders published online...

Govt. to provide Kerosene subsidy to low-income fa...

Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said that the Government will take steps to provide a Kerosene subsidy for low-income families and people engaged in fisheries and plantations sectors. “This subsidy applies to low-income families dependent on Kerosene, as well as to p...

Sri Lanka finance minister to present Rs 695mn sup...

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as Finance Minister will present a supplementary estimate of 695 billion rupees to parliament next Wednesday (08), preceded by a special statement on Tuesday (07) on the state of...

Insight on Expenditure

How did the government finance its expen...

The 2023 fiscal numbers, recently release...

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...

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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...

For Sri Lanka, A Governance-Linked Bond Might Just...

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...

Quantifying grants received by Sri Lanka from 1973...

Since independence, Sri Lanka has been the recipient of bilateral and multilateral grants that have supported various initiatives, including knowledge transfers, health and education improvements, infrastructure development, and critical hum...