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Is Sri Lanka Addicted to Missing Revenue Targets?
This article was compiled by Dr. Nishan de Mel. Dr. Nishan de Mel is the Executive Director of Verité Research and an economist with extensive acade...
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Asian Development Bank
Sri Lanka Shows Signs of Recovery but Must Maintai...
The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) recent Asian Development Outlook (ADO) for April 2024 projects a moderate economic recovery for Sri Lanka, with growth rates estimated at 1.9% for 2024 and 2.5% for 2025 after two consecutive years of c...
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Island
Experimenting with State-Owned Enterprises
Sri Lanka reports a total of 527 State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), with 55 deemed strategically important. However, transparency issues arise as only 11 out of 52 SOEs have published financial data up to 2022, obscuring the full extent of their losses and employment figures. Amidst public concern o...
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Economy Next
Sri Lanka’s central bank collects US$1.8bn from fx...
Sri Lanka's central bank successfully purchased $113 million from the forex markets in December 2023, culminating in a total of $1.895 billion for the year. This achievement was supported by a deflationary policy stance, initiated with r...
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Insight on Articles
Property Taxes: No Thanks but Many Thank...
This article was compiled by Professo...
Freeing the Balance Sheets of Banks: Sri...
This article was compiled by Professo...
Navigating SOE reforms in an election ye...
This article was compiled by Dr. Mala...
Worry about the total government expendi...
This a...
Proposed 13% primary expenditure rule fo...
On May 22, 2024, the government o...
Economic Policies in an Election Year: S...
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident...
Economic Policies in an Election Year: S...
Dr. Sharmini Coorey is a non-resident...
Can We Build a World-Class City with Thi...
This article was compiled by Dr. Sanj...
Wanted: An Authentic Minister of Finance...
This article was compiled by Professo...
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Uncovering Sri Lanka's Debt Trail: Who owns Sri La...
The chart below depicts the ownership of Sri Lanka's external debt as at end of Sept 2022.            
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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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Large Scale Infrastructure, Small Scale Disclosure...
This article was compiled by Subhashini Abeysinghe and Chathuni Pabasara. Subhashini Abeysinghe is a Research Director at Verité Research and an eco...
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