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International Women's Day
In Sri Lanka, as shown above, women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as likely to be unemployed than men.   82% of the unemployment for women comes from between the ages of 20 and 40. This is almost seven times the unemployment compared to women...
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Ceylon Today
Development Lotteries Board achieves Rs 3B in prof...
With the objective of funding the President’s Fund for public services and the Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Fund, the Development Lotteries Board (DLB) which was founded by Act No. 20 of 1997 has recorded Rs.3 billion in profits for the first time, achieving the annual revenue targ...
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Ceylon Today
Economy to shrink by 4.2% in 2023 – WB
The World Bank (WB) on Tuesday cut Sri Lanka’s growth prospects by 0.5 percentage points to a negative  4.2 per cent this year, sharper than IMF’s forecast of a negative three per cent growth.
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LBO
Sri Lanka’s economy expected to register 8-pct con...
Sri Lanka’s economy is projected to register a real contraction of around 8.0 percent in 2022 and a gradual recovery from the second half of 2023, the Central Bank said. Releasing the outlook for the economy for 2023, the Monetary Board of the Central Bank said that the headline inflation i...
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Insight on Civil Administration
The Alternatives to Universal Tax Regist...
This note argues that the Sri Lankan government’s recent proposal to implement universal ta...
International Women's Day
In Sri Lanka, as shown above, women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as l...
Sri Lanka Ports Authority – A Profitable...
The SLPA has made...
Key Issues Highlighted In The Audior Gen...
 Issues highlighted in bidding process from 2013 to...
25 of 52 Key SOEs identified by Ministry...
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) continue t...
Committee on Public Finance : Roles and...
The Committee on Public Finance(COPF) is...
How important is tax data to the public?
Verité Research filed two Right to...
Expenditure on the Civil Administration...
How Much Does Sri Lanka Spend on its Ove...
Sri Lanka’s expenses on foreign mis...
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PF Decoded : Episode 1
How much debt is too much debt ?   Sri Lanka’s debt has reached unprecedented levels in the recent past. Analyst Anushan Kapilan covers what debt is, how it can be measured and be quantified.&nb...
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Sri Lanka's Fiscal for Targets for 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023: Government revenue is expected to be 11.3% of GDP in 2023, according to projections in the Budget 2023.
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Sri Lanka met 25% of IMF commitments and failed 1...
Sri Lanka had met 25% of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of March 2023 but had failed on one, according to 'The IMF Tracker', a new online tool launched by Verit&ea...
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