After Sri Lanka's leftist government unveiled plans to revive the country's economy during its maiden budget in parliament on ...

The 2025 budget – the first under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake – reveals a delicate balancing act between adhering to ...

Sri Lanka's budgeted expenditure for 2025 will likely lead to a wider fiscal deficit and slower-than-expected fiscal ...

Sri Lanka's National People's Power government successfully passed its first full-year budget, forecasting a 5% economic ...

Sri Lanka has announced a defence budget of LKR442 billion (USD1.5 billion) for 2025. According to budgetary documents ...

Dissanayake cynically claimed that his government wants to establish the “economic sovereignty” of Sri Lanka, even as he is ...

Sri Lanka’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake delivered his maiden budget speech. Dissanayake, who is both president and finance ...

Nurses and other health workers are angered by the government’s drastic cuts to overtime and public holiday pay rates and the ...

The Sri Lankan government has introduced a series of fiscal measures in its 2025 budget, including higher levies on casinos.

Sri Lanka is set to expand its free trade agreement network and simplify its import duty structure to help small- and ...

On the right, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, President of Sri Lanka. On the left, Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s Minister of External ...

Manoj Thibbotuwawa is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) with  research interests in agriculture, agribusiness value chains, food security, climate change and ...