Progressive Economy

Economy concept

Public Finance Management Act 2024.

Shifting deficit financing towards commercial sources. The underlying premise of the Bill is that Sri Lanka’s debt issues primarily stem from the budget deficit, with particular emphasis on the primary deficit (i.e., the budget deficit excluding interest payments on existing government debt). The Bill posits that reducing the public debt requires first reducing the primary […]

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Surpassing neoliberal fictions towards mission-oriented state

In Sri Lanka, public policy lost in the neoliberal haze treats the market as a cure for all ills. Not only is the market omnipresent, but it is also omniscient and omnipotent. The charm of the ‘market’ that research and advocacy lobbyists are creating is so alluring that only a few wonder what abyss the

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