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The Director General of the Department of Fiscal Policy, Kapila Senanayake, stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
A ‘dual strategy’ to merge macroeconomic stability with microeconomic empowerment Sri Lanka is forging a new path toward ...
Sri Lanka's economic outlook remains positive, but global trade policy uncertainties pose significant risks to macroeconomic ...
The IMF Executive Board completed the Fourth Review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility with Sri Lanka, providing the country with immediate access to SDR 254 million (about US$350 million) to ...
In my article “Is Sri Lanka’s recovery sustainable?” published in the Daily FT on 18 January 2024, I argued that Sri Lanka’s ...
The International Monetary Fund has advised Sri Lanka of strict compliance for restoring fiscal sustainability and said the ...
The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic ...
Finance Secretary Harshana Suriyapperuma announced that Sri Lanka has now passed the halfway point of the IMF programme funding, following the ...
Mission Chief for Sri Lanka Evan Papageorgiou yesterday insisted Sri Lanka sustain the remarkable momentum of reform progress ...
It’s time for Sri Lanka to do the one and only thing that will permanently remove it from the IMF’s intensive-care ward. It should revert to a currency-board system, like the one it had for 66 ...
Sri Lanka's economy is expected to shrink by 8.7% in 2022 with inflation rising above 60%, the IMF said, adding that the impact has hit the poor and vulnerable the hardest.