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Budget 2024
Detailed analysis of the 2024 Budget
Highlights from the Appropriation Bill for 2024
The Appropriation Bill for 2024 was presented to Parliament on the 5th of October, ahead of the budget speech in November.The Appropriation Bill shows that there is a 12%...
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Daily Mirror
Budget deficit narrows to single digits on higher...
In 2023, Sri Lanka cut its budget deficit to 8.3% of GDP from 10.2% in 2022, despite unpopular tax hikes, in exchange for a $2.9 billion IMF bailout over four years.
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Source:
Daily Mirror
Sri Lanka faces uphill battle in meeting 2024 budg...
  Fitch Ratings expressed concerns about Sri Lanka's ambitious fiscal targets for 2024, highlighting significant risks in achieving its revenue goals and managing a wider budget deficit. Despite plans to increase revenue b...
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Reuters
Sri Lanka's budget will strive to return economy t...
Sri Lanka's upcoming 2024 budget announcement faces a delicate balancing act. The government aims to sustain an IMF-led bailout by increasing revenue through tax raises while steering the crisis-stricken economy towards growth. President...
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Insight on Budget 2024
2025 Vote on Account’s revenue gains may...
On 6 December, Parliament approved the 20...
Vote on Account 2025: Which ministries g...
On 6 December, Parliament approved the 20...
State of the Budget Report Estimates 14%...
Sri Lanka is projected to fall short of i...
Sectoral Allocations: Budget 2024
Sectoral allocations from the 2024 B...
Summary: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget expects budget deficit fo...
Fiscal Targets: Budget 2024
Projections in the budget expect revenue...
Expected GDP Outcomes: Budget 2024
The 2024 budget forecasts a greater contr...
Violation of Fiscal Rules: Budget 2024
The proposed 2024 budget violates the def...
Expenditure Proposals: Budget 2024
Major expenditure proposals from the 2024...
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Sri Lanka Met 33 IMF Commitments and failed 8 by e...
Sri Lanka had verifiably met 33 of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of June 2023 but had failed eight, according to the ‘IMF Tracker', an online tool lau...
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Interim Budget or Secret Budget?
The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics....
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Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Polici...
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 Fi...
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