ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s 2024 economic growth will be stronger than the expected 4 percent due to increased economic ...

The new president is an ordinary citizen in social terms with no pretensions to public display of power, taste, wealth or ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the Aragalaya movement, won the Sri Lankan presidential election, with his National ...

Sri Lanka will implement a single policy rate by the end of 2024, and consultations with market participants will begin soon, ...

Known for his Marxist leanings, Dissanayake has pledged to renegotiate the terms of Sri Lanka’s International Monetary Fund ...

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) kept the Standing Deposit Facility Rate at 8.25% and the Standing Lending Facility Rate ...

Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s president on Monday after an election that saw voters ...

Consider Sri Lanka’s gradual return to positive growth and ... restructure its debt now’ When Pakistan’s policymakers took ...

On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi ...

The merchandise trade deficit widened during the eight months ending August 2024 (provisional) compared to the same period in ...

Dissanayake made clear that the first order of business will be to impose savage International Monetary Fund austerity.

The IMF’s executive board approves a $7 billion 37-month loan agreement, backed by significant financial assurances from ...