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The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 2) to eliminate corruption through the means of technology infused systems. See the infographic below for more...
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Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 2) to eliminate corruption through the means of technology infused systems. See the infographic below for more...
Featured Insight
Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 2) to eliminate corruption through the means of technology infused systems. See the infographic below for more...
Featured Insight
Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 2) to eliminate corruption through the means of technology infused systems. See the infographic below for more...
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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.
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Daily Mirror
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...
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The Morning
SL pays Rs. 1,559.7 b in interest payments
Sri Lanka's interest payments on foreign and domestic debt reached Rs. 1,559.7 billion in the first eight months of 2024, a 2.2% increase from Rs. 1,525.7 billion in the same period of 2023. ...
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Daily Ft
Govt. expedites welfare benefits to over 3 mn fami...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has instructed to expedite the program to provide welfare benefits to 3.1 million low-income families in Sri Lanka.
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Insight on Expenditure
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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Sri Lanka Met 33 IMF Commitments and failed 8 by e...
Sri Lanka had verifiably met 33 of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of June 2023 but had failed eight, according to the ‘IMF Tracker', an online tool lau...
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Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lifted in 202...
The lack of transparency on the implementation progress of proposals in budget speeches has increased sharply in 2022 and 2023, according to a systematic evaluation conducted by Verité Research.
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Public debt grew more slowly in the first three qu...
Sri Lanka’s public debt rose at a slower pace in the first three quarters of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. Whilst domestic debt and foreign increased, the growth was notably lower than in the previous year.
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