Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Budget 2016 and education and health expenditure: Playing numbers games isn’t in accord with good governance principles 

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Untitled-2logoChief of the IMF Mission to Sri Lanka, Todd Schneider, has questioned the accuracy of some of the figures presented in Budget 2016 - AFP
Controversy over education and health numbers

Monday, 14 December 2015
A controversy has arisen relating to the education expenditure vote in Budget 2016. A section of Opposition Parliamentarians has accused the Minister of Finance of adding some fictional numbers to the budgetary expenditure under the education vote.