Agriculture and defence budgets reveal unstated priorities in policy = සැබෑ වියදම් සහ මූල්‍ය ප්‍රතිපාදන වෙන් කිරීම අතර නොගැලපුම

Abstract

A country's budget is expected to outline a government's short and medium term fiscal policy framework; explaining how the government plans to raise, allocate and spend public resources. This insight is motivated by the observation that in Sri Lanka there are regular, systematic and often considerable discrepancies between spending allocations - how much a government plans to spend - and actual spending. These discrepancies can be used to discern a government's actual priorities, which can be quite different from announced priorities.