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The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
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The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
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The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
Featured Insight
The Government Has to Repay Yearly an Average of USD 4.4 BN Foreign Debt from 2021 Onwards
The infographic shows the actual annual foreign debt service payments of GOSL (Government of Sri Lanka) from 2010 to 2020 and the projected foreign debt service payments from 2021 to 2025. The breakdown of foreign debt service between principal payments and interest payments is provided. During the period from 2010 to 2018, the annual foreign debt service payments averaged USD 2,267 million. However, GOSL witnessed a steep rise in foreign debt service payments to over USD 4,600 million in 2019, a 42% increase compared to USD 3,243 million in 2018. The Ministry of Finance projections show that GOSL on average has an annual foreign debt service payments of USD 4,432 million between 2021 and 2025. In this period, interest payment component on average will account for 25.3% of the annual foreign debt service and principal payments account for the balance 74.7%. In 2025, the foreign debt service payment is forecast to reach a peak of USD 5,075 million as ISB’s worth USD 2,150 million mature that year.
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Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020, if Indexation is Implemented
The Government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette brands....
2020-06-03
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Cigarette Tax Indexation: Getting it Right and Getting it Wrong
The indexation method introduced in 2019 Budget addresses two pervasive problems in cigarette taxation: (a) lack of regularity and consistency in tax increases, and (b) failure to reduce affordability of cigarettes.
2019-08-01
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Tobacco Policy: Mitigating the Influence of Vested Interests
Sri Lanka ratified the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in November 2003. The FCTC is a global treaty developed in response to t...
2018-07-31
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The Hidden Side of Cigarette Pricing
The media in Sri Lanka has often misrepresented the cigarette industry and cigarette taxes in favour of the monopoly producer Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC). In June 2017, Verité Research (VR) pub...
2018-05-31
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Who is responsible for Alternative facts on Cigarette Taxation?
The term ‘Alternative Facts’ has come to describe ‘blatant falsehoods’ spread to the media by those in power who purposely create doubt about even obvious and easily verifiable facts. Over the last few months, the Sri...
2017-06-01
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