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Beyond 2025: The Challenge of Sustaining Sri Lanka’s Fiscal Overperformance
Between Sustained Revenue Growth & Recovery in Capex
 • Thathsarani Siriwardana
Diversification of Sri Lanka’s Remittance flows – in source & form
Remittance flows amount to about 6-7% of GDP & 20-25% of FX earnings
 • Thathsarani Siriwardana
Is Sri Lanka sufficiently serious about transition to a Public Debt Management Office (PDMO)?
An effective institutional transition is crucial to debt sustainability
 • Umesh Moramudali
Sri Lanka's Public Sector amidst Ageing Demographics
Reforming before Ageing creates more problems?
 • Thathsarani Siriwardana
How did Sri Lanka end up with a LKR 700bn discrepancy in Capital Expenditure estimates?
2025 Budget Estimates don't sync with Budget Speech numbers
 • Umesh Moramudali
Sri Lanka’s Shifting Personal Income Tax Policies - 2005 to 2025
6 Personal Income Tax Regimes in 20 years
 • Thathsarani Siriwardana
How much external debt repayments does Sri Lanka have to make in 2025?
Now that Debt Restructuring is (almost) complete
 • Thilina Panduwawala
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Commenting on macro issues from a Sri Lankan perspective, with a focus on sovereign debt, balance of payments, and public finance.
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