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Budget 2022
Detailed analysis of the 2022 budget.
Public Report on the 2022 Budget: Assessment of the Fiscal, Financial and Economic Assumptions used in the Budget Estimates
This report provides an assessment and analysis of the fiscal, financial and economic assumptions and estimates applied in the formulation of the 2022 Budget. This repo...
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Daily Mirror
First quarter budget deficit expands 21% amid shar...
The fiscal deficit for the first three months of 2022 expanded by 21.2% to Rs. 484.3 billion over the same period in 2021, signalling another year of a stretched budget.
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Sunday Times
New budget to replace 2022 current budget
Sri Lanka’s new administration headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is gearing up to present a new, relief-based budget, around next month, replacing budget 2022 – for the first time in history since independence
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Daily FT
Public Finance Committee clears 2022 Appropriation...
The Appropriation Bill for 2022 has been approved by  the  Committee  on Public  Finance. According to  the  Bill, which  was  tabled  in Parliament,  the total expenditure for 2022 is estima...
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Insight on Budget 2022
Budget Promises: Beyond Parliament 2020
Budget Promises : Beyond Parliament is a...
Steering out of the Debt Crisis: Recipes...
“Steering Out of the Debt Crisis: R...
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Sri Lanka met 29 IMF commitments and failed 3 by e...
Sri Lanka had met 29 of the 100 trackable commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and had failed on three as of the end of May 2023, according to ‘The IMF Tracker’ dashboard of Verité Research.
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Sri Lanka met 46 IMF commitments and failed 12 by...
The transparency in Sri Lanka’s ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme improved in November following the publication of several supporting documents with the 2024 budget, according to the latest update of Verité Re...
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Defence budget for uniforms and diets alone up by...
Based on the 2024 budget estimates, expenditure on uniforms and diets in the defence sector is projected to increase by a significant LKR 75 billion, a 258 percent rise compared to 2022. 
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