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How did Sri Lanka Finance Government Expenditure in 2022?
Total government expenditure for the year 2022 amounted to LKR 4,472 billion. Out of which total revenue and grants could only cover 45% of spending while the remaining 55% was financed via borrowings. The infographic below provides a breakd...
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Daily Ft
Fitch downgrades Sri Lanka’s Long-Term Local-Curre...
Fitch Ratings announced a downgrade of Sri Lanka's Long-Term Local-Currency (LTLFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) from 'C' to 'RD' (Restricted Default). In a recent domestic debt exchange, local-currency bond ratings involv...
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Daily Mirror
Japan to provide US $ 3mn grant through ADB to ens...
Japan has agreed to provide a US $ 3 million grant through the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to implement the Food Security and Livelihood Restoration Emergency Assistance project in Sri Lanka.
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Ceylon Today
Japanese aid to SL drops by 94%
    Japanese aid to Sri Lanka fell sharply by 94.39 per cent (Japanese Yen 24.4 billion/Rs 42.7 billion) to Yen 1.4 billion (Rs 2.5 billion), 2020 over...
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Insight on Financing
Fiscal Performance From January to April...
Latest figures...
How Do Macro-fiscal Indicators Compare B...
Recently, Sri Lanka agreed to a currency...
Sri Lanka’s Bilateral Swap Agreements
A foreign currency swap is an agreement t...
2020 Records the Highest Budget Deficit...
The budget balance for 2020 is -LKR 2,090 billion (-14.0% of GDP) whil...
Where did Sri Lanka borrow from in 2020?
In 2020, China was the largest lender to Sri Lanka. But has this alway...
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ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ව්‍යාපෘති බොහෝම...
Government Budget Balances, 2000 to 2021
The bar chart illustrates the primary balance and overall balance as...
Financing Infrastructure: The (non) conc...
Recently Verite Research held a seminar on the potential (non) concess...
Foreign Financial Assistance in the Time...
USD 873.5 Million worth foreign financial assistance has been approved so far for Sri Lanka to fi...
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What Caused the Rise in Tax Revenue from 2021 to 2...
In the Central Bank's Annual Report for 2022, the government's revenues witnessed a notable surge of 38%, soaring from Rs 1,484 billion to Rs 2,013 billion. A c...
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Where's the promised land?
Land access has been identified as a crucial barrier which inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI) in Sri Lanka. Investment zones, primarily Export Processing Zones (EPZs), are significantly influential in attracting FDI however, Sri Lanka&...
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The Rise Of The Zombie Firms: The Problem With Rec...
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 Univers...
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