MILLENIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA, SRI LANKA

UNCLAS COLOMBO 000408 SIPDIS TREASURY FOR JOHN WINGLE, OFFICE OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: EAID ECON EFIN CE SUBJECT: MILLENIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT COUNTRY DATA, SRI LANKA REF: STATE 46075 ¶1. The Embassy received a fax from the Department of Fiscal Policy and Economic Affairs of the Ministry of Finance, Sri Lanka responding to our request for data required for the Millennium Challenge Account. All figures are in millions of Sri Lankan Rupees. Data within parenthesis indicate deficits. The Ministry of Finance has used the 2001 Central Bank of Sri Lanka Annual Report as its data source. ¶2. Overall budget balance (including grants) as per Government Finance Statistics published by the IMF. 1999: Rs (76,493) 2000: Rs (119,396) 2001: Rs (146,722) ¶3. Total Government expenditure on health: 1999: Rs 15,671 2000: Rs 20,698 2001: Rs 18,772 ¶4. Total government expenditure on education. 1999: Rs 29,294 2000: Rs 30,929 2001: Rs 28,286 Note: (Data on primary education is not available separately) ¶5. Nominal GDP in millions of rupees: 1999: Rs 1,105,963 2000: Rs 1,257,634 2001: Rs 1,400,180 WILLS