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For most of the past decade, the government of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 not only maintained massive deficits, it also overshot…

For most of the past decade, the government of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 not only maintained massive deficits, it also overshot its deficit targets by wide margins. Now the trend is reversing. 2024-2025 came in better than expected, marking a rare period of fiscal discipline and consolidation.

#SriLanka #BudgetInsights

14 Nov 2025, 09:36

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  1. 💯

    11 months ago
  2. See? This is what happens when you start dreaming too much about that US $347 from the IMF in 3rd review .😝

    11 months ago
  3. can you show what happen before 2016

    11 months agoLikes:1
  4. Fiscal Discipline brought by the IMF interference

    11 months agoLikes:2
  5. Thanks to IMF program

    11 months ago
  6. Thanks to vehicle buyers 😍🥰😌

    11 months agoLikes:2
  7. Ishara Galagoda Lahiru Basnayake ah wadak na Dollar nemeine nemeida

    11 months ago
  8. 20,21 and 22 it's no brainer that Covid shattered the economy and the government income

    11 months agoLikes:4
    1. Shenal Yatawara it does not mean that the gov cannot maintain the financial discipline.

      11 months agoLikes:6
    2. Shenal Yatawara C‘mon ,people choose a leader to safeguard the country no matter what…Just like a ship needs a captain to sail through the rough seas.

      11 months agoLikes:2
    3. Shenal Yatawara Also stupid tax reliefs destroyed the economy

      11 months ago
  9. කෝ මේ ඩෝබියො ටික. මේකත් හෝදන්න වරෙල්ල

    11 months agoLikes:1
    1. මොකද්ද මේකෙ හෝදන්න තියෙන්නෙ?

      11 months agoLikes:9
    2. Dharshana Gunasena no brain baiya/ sajabaiya

      11 months agoLikes:1
    3. Dharshana Gunasena brain dead??

      11 months agoLikes:3
    4. Dharshana Gunasena ඉංග්‍රීසි පන්ති පලයන් මුලින්ම😪😪

      11 months agoLikes:2
    5. Dharshana Gunasena ඇත්තටම උබට මේ කියලා තියෙන දේ තේරුම් ගන්න මොලයක් නෑ නේද ? 😂

      11 months agoLikes:7
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  10. Can you adjust this after accounting for % of Capital expenditure to GDP over the years.

    11 months agoLikes:3
  11. Wow.. What happened in the Yahapalana era🙄

    11 months agoLikes:2

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