{"id":69324,"date":"2017-08-31T14:08:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69324"},"modified":"2017-08-31T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:08:20","slug":"sri-lanka-to-cut-2017-spending-to-meet-deficit-goal-finance-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/08\/31\/sri-lanka-to-cut-2017-spending-to-meet-deficit-goal-finance-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to cut 2017 spending to meet deficit goal &#8211; finance secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\"32\">COLOMBO, Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka will cut government expenditure to stick to its 2017 budget deficit target of 4.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and compensate for a fall in revenue, the top bureaucrat in the finance ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"33\">We will re-arrange and cut some expenditure to meet the deficit target,\u201d Finance Secretary R.H.S. Samaratunga told Reuters on the sidelines of a meeting in the capital, Colombo.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"34\">Sri Lanka will fall short of its 2017 revenue target because of delays in adopting budget proposals. (Reporting by Shihar Aneez; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Sri Lanka will cut government expenditure to stick to its 2017 budget deficit target of 4.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and compensate for a fall in revenue, the top bureaucrat in the finance ministry said on Thursday. We will re-arrange and cut some expenditure to meet the deficit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}