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Defence Sector Claims Nearly Half of State Salaries
According to the 2023 Budget Estimates, 15% of total recurrent expenditure of the government will be spent on salaries for government employees for the year 2023.  
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Daily FT
President announces sharp daily wage hike for plan...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced a 70% increase in the daily wage for plantation workers during the May Day rally of the Ceylon Workers’ Congress in Kotagala. Daily wage rais...
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Daily Mirror
National consumer prices soften in March
Consumer prices in Sri Lanka, as measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), exhibited a softening trend in March. While the broader index showed a 2.5 percent increase from a year earlier, down from 5.1 percent in February, monthl...
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The Island
JVP says CMC losing Rs 320 million from new contra...
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) had incurred a loss of Rs. 320 million from a contract awarded for collecting and transporting garbage, JVP Municipal Councilor Hemantha Weerakoon said yesterday.
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Insight on Expenditure
The new Ministers of Finance: Will their...
The annual bu...
Education and Health in Budget 2016: Gra...
Governments make attractive promises when...
The Budget is not Mainly about Money, it...
Budgeting is a governance process that dr...
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Summary of the Budget 2023
Sri Lanka Budget 2023 anticipates higher revenue, expenditure and a 6.6% reduction in the budget deficit.
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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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The Best Next Step for Improving Tax Collection
This article was compiled by Sumini Siyambalapitiya. Sumini Siyambalapitiya is a former Lead Analyst in the Economics team of Verité Research and se...
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