Debate on Budget Proposals 2017

Debate on Budget Proposals 2017

Department of Business Economics has scheduled various types of continuous assessments to evaluate student performance for the course module BEC 2340: Macroeconomics. Accordingly, the first assignment was a debate on the ‘Budget Proposals – 2017 of Sri Lanka’.

The course is offered by 11 departments in the faculty, and the department conducts lectures in seven groups. Thereby, seven debate sessions took place under two debate motions: “Shrinking Government Size in Sri Lanka- facilitates or hinders Economic Growth?” and “Is Government Revenue Policy proposed in the 2017 Budget Effective?”

The debate sessions were successfully held on 16th of March 2017 at the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce. Mr Janka Fernando, Subject Coordinator; Mrs Priyantha Lalanie, Senior Lecturer; Dr Kumuduni Sriyalatha, Senior Lecturer; Mrs Harini Amarasinghe, Lecturer; and Ms Ishari Madukala, Lecturer provided their services on the evaluation panels.