Government urged to take pragmatic view on debt management

    Government urged to take pragmatic view on debt management
    by |23 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Island By Sanath Nanayakkare If Sri Lanka has the right policy mix to effectively carry on with its debt rollover and to maintain a surplus in its current account, the country can demonstrate that it has entered...
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    Briefing Note: Navigating Sri Lanka’s Debt
    by |18 March 2021
    The published information on debt underestimates Sri Lanka’s overall external public debt burden and its distribution amongst external lenders. This problem arises because Sri Lanka’s reporting of external debt is limited to debt held directly by the central government and excludes debt held by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This reporting problem is especially evident when estimating Sri Lanka’s overall debt obligations to China, since much of...
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    සංක්ෂිප්ත සටහන: ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ ණය කළමනාකරණය
    by |18 March 2021
    මෙම සංෂිප්ත සටහනෙන් පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ ණය වාර්තාකරණයේදී මධ්‍යම රජයේ ආයතන වලින් පරිබාහිරව ඇති රාජ්‍ය ආයතනවල විදේශ ණය ඊට ඇතුලත් කිරීමට අපොහොසත් වීම ලංකාවේ ණය බර අවතක්සේරුවට හේතු වන බවයි. මෙයට හේතුපාදක වන එම තොරතුරුමය ගැටළුව කොටස් තුනක් ඔස්සේ මෙහිදී පැහැදිලි...
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    2021 ஆம் ஆண்டின் வரவு செலவுத் திட்டம் தொடர்பான பொது அறிக்கை
    by |16 March 2021
    இது 2021 ஆம் ஆண்டிற்கான இலங்கையின் மத்திய அரசாங்க வரவு செலவுத் திட்டம் பற்றிய இரண்டு அறிக்கைகளின் தொடர்ச்சியான இரண்டாவது அறிக்கையாகும். செலவின ஒதுக்கீடுகள் மற்றும் வரிவிதிப்புக் கொள்கைகள் அரசாங்கத்தின் கொள்கைக்கு ஏற்ப உள்ளதா என்பதை இந்த அறிக்கை மதிப்பீடு செய்கிறது. (more…)
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    2021 අයවැය
    2021 අයවැය පිළිබඳ ප්‍රසිද්ධ වාර්තාව
    by |16 March 2021
    මෙම වාර්තාව, ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මධ්‍යම රජයේ 2021 වර්ෂය සඳහා වූ අයවැය පිළිබඳව  පළ කරන ලද වාර්තා දෙකකින් දෙවන වාර්තාව වේ. මෙමඟින් රජයේ වියදම් සඳහා වෙන් කෙරෙන ප්‍රතිපාදන හා බදුකරණ ප්‍රතිපත්ති කෙතෙරම් දුරට රජයේ ප්‍රතිපත්තිවලට අනුකූල වන්නේද යන්න ඇගැයීමට ලක් කෙරේ....
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    Quality Development for Quality Growth and Quality Life
    by |16 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in -DailyNews The year 2021 marks the 70th Anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Conference in which the late former President (then Finance Minister) J.R. Jayewardene made a historic speech supporting Japan’s cause after the World War II, quoting...
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    Govt. should focus on reserve quality: Former CB Chief
    by |16 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in DailyFT   Former Central Bank Governor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy   Warns overreliance on swaps and inter-governmental financing could create more problems down the road  Acknowledges current challenges but says strategy needed to deal with debt for next five...
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    Urgent need for multifaceted approach to counter gender-discriminatory labour laws
    by |16 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in DailyFT The Advocata Institute’s panel discussion on “Gender discriminatory labour laws in Sri Lanka” took place at the Taj Samudra Longdon Room on 5 March. Panelists at the discussion were Minister of Justice M.U.M. Ali Sabry, Former Department...
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    Public Report on the 2021 Budget: Assessment on whether the expenditure allocations and taxation policies are in line with the government’s policy
    by |14 March 2021
    This is the second report in a series of two reports on Sri Lanka's central government budget for the year 2021. The report assesses whether the expenditure allocations and taxation policies are in line with the government's policy. (more…)
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    Reducing the Gap in Understanding Sri Lanka’s Gender Gap
    by |08 March 2021|Interviews & Articles
    Published in - DailyMirror The Global Gender Gap Index The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) is a composite index that measures the extent of gender-based gaps in and among countries and tracks progress towards reducing these gaps...
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