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Beyond 2025: The Challenge of Sustaining Sri Lanka’s Fiscal Overperformance
Between Sustained Revenue Growth & Recovery in Capex
Sep 13 • 
Thathsarani Siriwardana
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Diversification of Sri Lanka’s Remittance flows – in source & form
Remittance flows amount to about 6-7% of GDP & 20-25% of FX earnings
Jun 21 • 
Thathsarani Siriwardana
2
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Is Sri Lanka sufficiently serious about transition to a Public Debt Management Office (PDMO)?
An effective institutional transition is crucial to debt sustainability
Jun 9 • 
Umesh Moramudali
Sri Lanka's Public Sector amidst Ageing Demographics
Reforming before Ageing creates more problems?
Apr 18 • 
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
Mar 22 • 
Umesh Moramudali
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Sri Lanka’s Shifting Personal Income Tax Policies - 2005 to 2025
6 Personal Income Tax Regimes in 20 years
Mar 8 • 
Thathsarani Siriwardana
1
How much external debt repayments does Sri Lanka have to make in 2025?
Now that Debt Restructuring is (almost) complete
Feb 16 • 
Thilina Panduwawala
3
'Financing' Sri Lanka's Current Account Surplus
It's much more than a build up in Central Bank Foreign Reserves
Nov 5, 2024 • 
Thilina Panduwawala
4
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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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