President Rajapaksa as Minister of Finance presented the first budget in his second term as the Executive President, making proposals giving a major impetus to value addition of local industrial products, to improve export earnings while granting a wide range of concessions, increasing outsourcing facilities in Sri Lanka for foreign business enterprises. Thus the President, ...

By Chamitha Kuruppu Reputed Economist and UNP Member of Parliament Dr. Harsha de Silva, while talking about the crony capitalism in the country, warns that the situation is only going to get worse within the new set up, where economic...

(Lanka-e-News, Sep.11, 2010, 11.05 PM) According to Central Bank statistics, during the year 2009-2010, the EPF payments to its members have dropped by...

Aug 18, Colombo: Sri Lanka Central Bank (CBSL) today dismissed an opposition party claim that the Employee's Provident Fund (EPF) does not have the authority to invest in banking and financial sector stocks listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.