Browsing VR Insights (issues) by Subject "Budget analysis"

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    • Education and Health in Budget 2016: Grand promises don’t bode well for governance 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-11-24)
      Governments make attractive promises when presenting the Budget. However, successive Budgets have shown that making promises is easier than keeping them. The extent to which the present government will be able to keep its ...

    • The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises? 

      VR Insight;August 2017
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2017-08)
      An analysis of past budgets revel large deviations between budgeted allocations and actual expenditure. This shows that expectations set by the government during the budget speech are not honoured. This Insight analyses ...