“As one of Sri Lanka’s longstanding development partners ... The World Bank’s budget support loans are linked to structural ...

The IMF estimates the country’s total external-financing needs ... To restore debt sustainability, Pakistan would need to ...

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 Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, at its meeting held on 26 September 2024, decided to maintain the ...

Sri Lanka’s central bank kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged in its first meeting since a new president was elected ...

Will President Dissanayake calibrate his foreign policy taking into account India's immediate security concerns? We need to ...

The political shift from socially progressive to regressive, and vice versa, is often, although not always, accompanied by a change in economic fortunes. The election of a Marxist-Leninist politician ...

The new president took office with a mandate to bring relief to citizens, but the hard part is getting the lenders to play ...

Sri Lanka's central bank said it was holding policy rates at the current 8.25 to 9.25 percent levels, with the price index ...

Sri Lanka's central bank kept interest rates unchanged on Friday in line with expectations as the island nation waits for ...