MacroColombo

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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June 2025

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

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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

April 2025

Sri Lanka's Public Sector amidst Ageing Demographics

Reforming before Ageing creates more problems?

Apr 18 • 

Thathsarani Siriwardana

March 2025

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

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February 2025

How much external debt repayments does Sri Lanka have to make in 2025?

Now that Debt Restructuring is (almost) complete

Feb 16 • 

Thilina Panduwawala

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November 2024

'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

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September 2024

China EXIM Bank has completed Sri Lanka Bilateral Debt Restructuring?

What can be gleaned from Sri Lanka's MoF reports

Sep 12, 2024 • 

Thilina Panduwawala

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July 2024

Sri Lanka's Post-Default Macro - Sovereign Default & External Surpluses

A look at the numbers behind the strengthening of the LKR

Jul 20, 2024 • 

Thilina Panduwawala

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March 2024

How big are Sri Lanka's non-tourism Services Exports?

An attempt to get the rest out of tourism's shadow

Mar 4, 2024 • 

Thilina Panduwawala

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January 2024

Sri Lanka's 2023 balance of payments & $2.5bn reserve accumulation

Comparing actual BOP numbers available to the IMF program assumptions

Jan 15, 2024 • 

Thilina Panduwawala

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