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Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been downgraded 7 times during the last 7-years (May 2015 – May 2022)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. The recent downgrade to RD (Restricted Default) on the 19th of May 2022 was immediately after the lapse of a one month grace period for an ISB coupon payment that was not paid on the 18th of April.
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Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been downgraded 7 times during the last 7-years (May 2015 – May 2022)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. The recent downgrade to RD (Restricted Default) on the 19th of May 2022 was immediately after the lapse of a one month grace period for an ISB coupon payment that was not paid on the 18th of April.
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Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been downgraded 7 times during the last 7-years (May 2015 – May 2022)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. The recent downgrade to RD (Restricted Default) on the 19th of May 2022 was immediately after the lapse of a one month grace period for an ISB coupon payment that was not paid on the 18th of April.
Featured Insight
Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating has been downgraded 7 times during the last 7-years (May 2015 – May 2022)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. The recent downgrade to RD (Restricted Default) on the 19th of May 2022 was immediately after the lapse of a one month grace period for an ISB coupon payment that was not paid on the 18th of April.
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How Sri Lanka Spent, Earned, and Borrowed in 2024?
The recently released CBSL Economic review shows that in 2024, government expenditure totalled LKR 6,131 billion. Nearly half—LKR 2,690 billion, or 44 percent—went on interest payments for existing debt. Day-to-day costs consumed...
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CBSL forecasts economy to grow by 3% in 2024
The Central Bank expects the economy to grow by 3% this year as the benefits of the eased monetary policy stance and low inflation environment continue to be gradually channelled into the economy.
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Daily mirror
Tourism earnings top US $ 500mn in first two month...
The earnings from tourism have exceeded US $ 500 million for the first two months of the year, with the industry generating an excess of US $ 300 million for the month of February.
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Sri Lanka 2021 imports surge to 20.6bn amid contro...
Sri Lanka’s imports surged to 2.2 billion US dollars in December 2022 from around 1.6 to 1.7 billion US dollars in earlier months, while full year imports rose to 20.6 billion dollars, higher than the 19.9 billion US dollars in the pre...
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Insight on Revenue
Taxes on Motor Vehicle Imports
Last year the government placed import restrictions on motor vehicles. How did this aff...
Deviation of Actual vs. Estimated Revenu...
The Fiscal Management Report released recently shows that Tax Revenue between Jan – Aug 202...
Summary of Fiscal Indicators, 1950 to 20...
The following chart displays the government revenue and expenditure...
Government Revenue in 2020 – Not Suffici...
According to the Ministry of Finance, government revenue is expected t...
Tax Impacts of Import Restrictions
Between Apr...
2020 Mid-year Fiscal Performance
Latest figures released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka show that rev...
Sri Lanka’s Fiscal Performance (2020 vs...
The latest figures released by the Ministry of Finance show that the f...
Sri Lanka’s already lagging Tax to GDP r...
Sri Lanka’s Tax/GDP ratio has been declining with further declin...
The budget deficit has increased in 2019...
The recently released figures for 2019 show that government revenue ha...
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The Cost of a Kevili Table in 2023
This Avurudu, the cost of preparing a Kevili table has risen by 2.4 times since 2019. The basket of items one would usually find at Kevili table vary between households. Public Finance.lk used the following: Kokis...
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Defence Sector Claims Nearly Half of State Salarie...
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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Calculating the Loss to the EPF from Proposed DDR
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...
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