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Deeply-research Sri Lankan insights: thersq.oeg, run by @dinidu. Back from the ashes a decade later.

Joined February 2013
Here is a highlights reel of the proposed 2027 budget and what it means. Read the full report: The 2027 Appropriation Bill vs the 2025 and 2026 Acts: Statutory Spending Aims, Institutional Reallocations, and Post-Ditwah Fiscal Realities thersq.org/article/appropria…
President @anuradisanayake will present his third budget Thursday, 12 October. This is RSQ's detailed analysis of what's in store, seeming policy priorities, and substantive legal changes on how the Rs ~10tn is planned on being spent. More than half of it is discretionary.
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President @anuradisanayake will present his third budget Thursday, 12 October. This is RSQ's detailed analysis of what's in store, seeming policy priorities, and substantive legal changes on how the Rs ~10tn is planned on being spent. More than half of it is discretionary.
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Regional financing display disconnect towards the ongoing and near-term impact on food-agriculture because of El Niño effects (already being felt in some areas as heavy rains). RSQ highlighted this in the 2026 Q3 weather and climare report. thersq.org/article/climate-m…
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Condensed: a lower-spending, good-intentions, long-term soft-investment, and reasonably disciplined budget, heavily marred by heavy legislative weakening on holding (and driving) spenders accountable for weak performance which collectively displays weak confidence-capacity.
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