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
https://t.co/IvS94u6TlU
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.
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.
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.
Regional financing display disconnect towards the ongoing and near-term impact on food-agriculture because of El Niรฑo effects (already being felt in some areas as heavy rains).
RSQ highlighted this in the 2026 Q3 weather and climare report.
https://t.co/KFA8I0lDFB