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Sri Lanka vs. IMF Programme Targets
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-01-13)
Sri Lanka is currently entering its 17th IMF programme with the impending board level agreement. However, over the 54-year period from 1965 to 2019, Sri Lanka has been in an IMF programme for 28 of those years. In other ...
Syndicated Surveys: Taxing EPF Returns (October 2023)
(2023-11)
77% of Sri Lankan adults think that the government’s decision to reduce returns on the retirement savings in the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), in the pursuit of domestic debt restructuring (DDR), was not necessary and/or ...
Syndicated Surveys: Online Safety Bill (October 2023)
(2023-10)
In a survey commissioned by Verité Research, 56% of those who said they knew about the Online Safety Bill also said it will reduce the freedom of using social media. To the question ‘the government introduced a bill to ...
Syndicated Surveys: Easter Sunday Attacks (October 2023)
(2023-11)
More than half the Sri Lankan population – 53% – believes local political forces were involved in the Easter Sunday attacks carried out in 2019, according to a survey commissioned in October by Syndicated Surveys. 53% ...
Expenditure Proposals: Budget 2024
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-13)
The highest expenditure proposal from the 2024 Budget amounted to LKR 11,250 million for a decentralized budget programme. The list of infographics displays the highest expenditure proposals from the 2024 Budget.
Expected GDP Outcomes: Budget 2024
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-13)
The 2024 budget forecasts a greater contraction in 2023 and higher growth in 2024 compared to IMF projections.
Violation of Fiscal Rules: Budget 2024
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-13)
The proposed 2024 budget violates the deficit rule set in the Fiscal Management (Responsibility) Law of 5% of GDP.
Fiscal Targets: Budget 2024
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-13)
Projections in Budget 2024 expect revenue to be 13.1% of GDP in 2024.
IMF programme’s transparency falls to lowest point in September
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-10-19)
The latest update from 'IMF Tracker’ of Verité Research, an online platform which tracks the 100 identified commitments in Sri Lanka’s 17th programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), shows that Sri Lanka verifiably ...
Sri Lanka met 41 IMF commitments and failed 11 by end-Oct
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-17)
Sri Lanka verifiably met 41 of the 73 trackable commitments that were due for completion by end-October 2023 in its ongoing programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to the latest update from ‘IMF ...