ISAS Briefs

Sri Lanka’s government recently introduced its budget for 2018 in November 2017, which follows the ‘Vision 2025’ masterplan introduced in September 2017. This paper looks at the central themes which emerged out of the budget speech, namely, a ‘blue-green’ economy and ‘Enterprise Sri Lanka’, as well as the potential of the budget to address Sri Lanka’s current economic challenges which include an intractable deficit, low revenue collection and a trade imbalance.