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1 – 10 of 13According to the constitution, the next presidential election must take place in September-October 2024, but parliamentary polls are not due until 2025. Wickremesinghe is heavily…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284210
ISSN: 2633-304X
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According to a debt sustainability analysis published by the IMF in May, Laos is in debt distress. Years of rapid growth in borrowing to fund infrastructure development…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280381
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Separately, the IMF’s Executive Board on March 20 approved a four-year, roughly USD3bn Extended Fund Facility for the country. The approval came around ten months after Sri Lanka…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278564
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In October, it signed a landmark green economy deal with Australia. The Financial Services Industry Transformation Map (ITM) 2025 released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274529
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The government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation is aimed at pleasing the IMF, with which Sri Lanka recently reached a staff-level agreement on a four-year, USD2.9bn bailout…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274687
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The budget was submitted on August 15 and is President Rodrigo Duterte's first. It is mildly expansive, focusing on the new administration's priorities of infrastructure, law and…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB213194
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SRI LANKA: Concessions may help government politically
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES266442
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PHILIPPINES: Spending plans to see tax evasion curb
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES213023
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Tax reform efforts in the Philippines.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB214157
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Total expenditure is projected at INR39.5tn (USD524.4bn), about 5% higher than the revised estimate for 2021/22. However, capital expenditure (capex) is expected to be more than…