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Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms. 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
Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms. 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
Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms. 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
Debt Digest - March 2023
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel and Professor Udara Peiris. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive academic, policy and private sector experience. He taught and researched economics at Oxford and Harvard universities. He also served as the Executive Director at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies and the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute. He currently sits on multiple private sector boards and consults regularly as a strategist for some of the region’s largest firms. 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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Detailed analysis of the 2023 Budget
Sri Lanka's best kept secret
The lack of fiscal transparency is a key factor that contributed to the present crisis and loss of credibility of the government, both at home and abroad. Several commitments made by the government in its agreement with the International Mon...
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Sunday Times
New tax hike hurts high income earners
The Government’s desperate move of increasing income tax to a very high level under the new tax reforms fulfilling one of the commitments for the US$2.9 billion IMF extended fund facility has hit hard the high income earners and professionals below the belt.
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Sunday Times
Treasury orders ministries to further reduce budge...
The Finance Ministry has issued a fresh circular, directing ministries to further slash their budgets by six percent... https://www.sundaytimes.lk/230122/news/tre...
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Economy Next
Sri Lanka parliament nod for 2023 budget with high...
Sri Lanka’s parliament passed 2023 budget that has proposed higher taxes and some basic reforms to content the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and secure $2.9 billion loan from the global lender to move out of the island nation&rsquo...
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Insight on Budget 2023
National Budget Process in 60 Seconds!
The video below describes the National Bu...
Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lif...
The lack of transparency on the implement...
Sri Lanka's best kept secret
The lack of fiscal transparency is a key...
Where's the promised land?
Land access has been identified as a cruc...
Does Sri Lanka Need More Rules or Better...
The government of Sri Lanka proposed introducing a new law to establish stronger rules on public...
Expenditure Proposals from the 2023 Budg...
The following infographics present some of the key expenditure proposals presented in the 2023 Bu...
Sectoral Allocations for the 2023 Budget
Sectoral allocations from the 2023 Budget, ranging from defence to water and sanitation
Expected GDP Outcomes - Budget 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023 expects a 27% year over year increase in nominal GDP, with an increase of L...
Summary of the Budget 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023 anticipates higher revenue, expenditure and a 6.6% reduction in the budget...
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Fiscal Targets: Budget 2024
Projections in the budget expect revenue to be 13.1% of GDP in 2024.
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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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Economic Policies in an Election Year: Some Inconv...
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident fellow at Verité Research. She was a former Department Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on multilateral engageme...
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