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Summary: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget expects budget deficit for the year 2024 to increase by 19%.
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Summary: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget expects budget deficit for the year 2024 to increase by 19%.
Featured Insight
Summary: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget expects budget deficit for the year 2024 to increase by 19%.
Featured Insight
Summary: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget expects budget deficit for the year 2024 to increase by 19%.
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Total and primary deficits run in opposite directions
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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The Island
ADB assures more support but not debt cancellation
Instead of offers on debt cancellation, the Asian Development Bank (ADB)President Masatsugu Asakawa assured that they would pro-vide more support to Sri Lanka to get out of the economic crisis.
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Daily Mirror
Currency float sends rupee value of foreign debt s...
January-April data show govt. Fx debt enlarged by 67% to Rs.10.9tn. The Sri Lankan rupee, which shed nearly 80 percent of its value, has sent the rupee value of the foreign currency-denominated debt of the government spiralling by significan...
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Daily News
India likely to extend additional USD 500 mn Credi...
Sri Lanka has sought an additional USD 500 million Credit Line from India to import fuel.
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Insight on Debt
9 Years Since Bond Scam
The 27th of February marks nine years sin...
Public Debt Increases in Dollar Value Wh...
According to recent data published by the...
Total and primary deficits run in opposi...
The governments primary deficit improved...
Sri Lanka in the top 10 countries with t...
According to data from the World Bank Dat...
Interest payments weigh heaviest in 2022...
The central bank's annual report for...
Uncovering Sri Lanka's Debt Trail: Who o...
The chart below depicts the ownership of Sri Lanka's external debt as at end of Sept 202...
Domestic Debt Restructuring
Sri Lanka faces a challenge to emerge from the continuing crisis. Th...
Charting a Path for Debt Sustainability...
Since December 2018 Sri Lanka has been subject to three notches down...
Sri Lanka’s Annual Average Sovereign For...
The infographic shows the actual annual fo...
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IMF Article IV Report – Key Issues and Recommendat...
Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, IMF holds bilateral discussions with its member countries every year. In 2021 IMF held discussions with Sri Lanka officials and the report was completed on Febru...
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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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Sanitary Napkins: Subjected to Unreasonably High T...
The total tax burden on Sanitary napkins is 47.1%, this is significantly higher than the tax burden of selected non-essentials items, gold jewelry, raw silk, golf clubs and gol...
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