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Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
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Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
Featured Insight
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
Featured Insight
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
This article was compiled by Professor Udara Peiris. Udara Peiris joined Oberlin in the fall of 2022. He was previously a tenured Associate Professor of Finance at HSE University (at the department ICEF) in Russia and has taught at the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford (both in the UK). He was a research advisor to the Central Bank of Russia, consulted the Government of Sri Lanka, and presented his research at institutions including the IMF, Federal Reserve System, Bank of England, and Reserve Bank of Australia. His research has a strong policy focus and covers the nexus between the macroeconomy and the financial markets.
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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 News
Govt sector salary increase between 24% to 50 % in...
Substantial salary increases for public servants, ranging from 24% to 50%, along with performance-based increments and benefits, effective from January 2025. &nbs...
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The Island
Overall decline in April PMI
The PMI recorded a value of 42.0, signaling a contraction in the manufacturing sector, driven by declines in New Orders, Production, Employment, and Stock of Purchases sub-indices.
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Ceylon Today
Bonus for Public sector workers
Employees of State corporations and fully government-owned companies will be entitled to bonuses ranging from a minimum of Rs 5,000 to a maximum of Rs 15,000 this season.
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Insight on Expenditure
How is the election budget spent?
The General Election is approaching, and the government expects to spe...
The price of parliament- What does it lo...
In 2022, the most recent year with detail...
Poor transparency in large scale infrast...
Section 9 of the RTI Act No. 12 of 2016 m...
Economic Transformation Act's 2.3% Prima...
The Economic Transformation Act (ETA), en...
2023 Budget’s expenditure limit overshot...
The Ministry of Finance Annual Report, re...
2023 government expenditure surge matche...
Government spending increased by 20% in 2...
How did the government finance its expen...
The 2023 fiscal numbers, recently release...
Large Scale Infrastructure Small Scale D...
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Defence Sector Claims Nearly Half of Sta...
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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....
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Total and primary deficits run in opposite directi...
The governments primary deficit improved in the first half of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2022, while the budget deficit worsened increasing from LKR -903 Bn to LKR -1,243 Bn which implies a significant 93 percent increase a...
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Expenditure Proposals: Budget 2024
Major expenditure proposals from the 2024 Budget.
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