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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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    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

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can you show what happen before 2016

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  • Fiscal Discipline brought by the IMF interference

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  • Thanks to IMF program

    11 months ago
  • Thanks to vehicle buyers 😍🥰😌

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

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

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    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
  • 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 ? 😂

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  • Can you adjust this after accounting for % of Capital expenditure to GDP over the years.

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  • Wow.. What happened in the Yahapalana era🙄

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