public finance

Taken from EconomyNext ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government has failed to carry out a controversial proposal to set up a an ‘Export-Import bank’, to support businesses venturing overseas, for the third straight year, a think tank said. The study, presented...

Taken from DailyFT From left: Verite Research’s Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe, Analyst Hasna Munas and Economic Research Team Leader Vidya Nathaniel - Pic by Ruwan Walpola Verité’s latest Budget tracker for 1H shows only 8% of 38 major proposals worth Rs. 149...

Taken from Daily Mirror National Budget Department says no such unit exists Progress reports of individual ministries lacking consistency Status of 26 percent of promises remains undisclosed By Shabiya Ali Ahlam The government has yet again failed to implement the...

Taken from EconomyNext ECONOMYNEXT – Most new spending proposals in Sri Lanka’s 2018 government budget are behind schedule in their implementation with only eight percent of promises progressing on track, the same rate as last year, a new study has...

Taken from LBO Oct 16, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s private think tank Verité Research has found out that only 8 percent of promises announced in the 2018 budget are progressing on track through the end of the first six...

Taken from Ada Derana A private sector think-tank says that only 8% of the government’s budget promises are progressing in line with their targets and that the pace of progress is slow, at the end of the first six months...

As the Government moves to increase transparency through a wider digitisation strategy it is important that this measure is linked to crucial economic frameworks such as the Budget process. Budget 2019 is currently being formulated by the Finance Ministry and...