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22-04-2022, Amsterdam: In the latest series of EFSAS interviews, Mr. Junaid Qureshi (Director EFSAS) welcomed virtually Professor Mick Moore, a highly regarded political economist and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He is also the founding CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development and was appointed […]
- Sri Lanka state finances would improve with domestic domestic restructure: think tank (Category: Breaking News)
- China leaves crisis-ridden Sri Lanka in the lurch to fend for itself (Category: Breaking News)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Newly-appointed Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wanted Pakistan to take a number of steps to do away with subsidies extended by the previous government, including raising fuel price and power tariff, to revive its Extended Fund Facility (EFF). The fund had set a series of prior conditions involving […]
- Indian economy on course to achieve 8-8.5% growth, says Finance Ministry (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank confident on Sri Lanka deal with IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- China cautions Sri Lanka on IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- Fuel quota to be increased from June (Category: Breaking News)
Although the Asian region is better prepared for economic turmoil than it was a decade ago, high levels of financial, trade and investment integration with the Western economies ensure that no country is immune to the effects of the Eurozone debt crisis. While most of the European Union (EU) economies struggle to design new austerity measures to ...
- Sri Lanka is an exciting and resilient business destination (Category: Business)
- Huge gains for South Asian consumers: CUTS (Category: Business)
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
The place isn’t a paradise for minorities but the economy is recovering By Sam Baker Asuasentinel.com: The Government of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka has probably botched its dealings with the United States, the European Union and the United Nations. Still, the disenchantment with Colombo may be overblown three years after the end of the ...
- Army inquiry a delaying tactic: Human Rights Watch (Category: Business)
- President calls on diplomats to counter threats from pro-LTTE Diaspora (Category: Business)
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rejected asylum seekers abused in Sri Lanka, says rights group (Category: Breaking News)
In the last 15 years, the major hospitals invested over Rs. 50 billion by way of total expenditure to increase capacity building within the private healthcare sector by investing in necessary infrastructure, cutting edge technology and continuous development in human capital in the clinical discipline. The centres have created several hundreds of employment opportunities with ...
- Making a difference (Category: Business)
- Arogya 2012 to promote local health sector (Category: Business)
- Services of Apollo Hospitals accessible from Sri Lanka again (Category: Business)
- Doctors’ Brain Drain: Health Security Concern In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s economic growth this year may range between 6.7% and 7.2% depending on the impact of a drought that has lasted since the beginning of the year, Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera said on Thursday. The Central Bank has forecast 7.2% economic growth this year, after revising it down in March from the ...
- Central Bank emphatic dollars are coming (Category: Business)
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
- ComBank records highest growth in ‘Inter-Bank Electronic’ payments (Category: Business)
- The Contribution Of The Monetary Policy For Overcoming The Current Economic Crisis Faced In Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has met the monetary and fiscal targets set forth by the IMF for the quarter ended 30.6.12., IMF’s Resident Representative in Colombo Dr. Koshy Mathai told a forum here on Wednesday. Those also include the net reserve target (ie Government of Sri Lanka’s (GoSL’s) foreign exchange
Offers $ 43 b in overall deal which will see Fund’s base doubling to $ 456 b Reuters: China on Monday offered $43 billion to the IMF’s crisis-fighting reserves, rounding off a global push to nearly double the Fund’s war chest to $456 billion to help protect countries from fallout from the euro zone debt ...
- BRICS demand bigger IMF role before giving it cash (Category: Business)
- BRICS nations gird to pressure West over imbalances (Category: Business)
- IMF seeks more funds; G20 to discuss (Category: Business)
- Lagarde’s next battle at IMF: Power shift (Category: Business)
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Sri Lanka’s Foreign- and Local-Currency IDRs at ‘BB-’. The Outlook for both the ratings is Stable. The Country Ceiling has also been affirmed at ‘BB-’, and the Short-Term Foreign Currency IDR at ‘B’. “The ratings reflect Fitch’s view that the authorities have taken the appropriate action to correct recent pressure o...
- Appropriate actions prompt Fitch to affirm Sri Lanka at ‘BB-’; Outlook Stable (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s Outlook Goes To Positive From Stable (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch Assigns Bank of Ceylon ‘BB-’ IDRs (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank’s rating affirmed at ‘AA(lka)’/Stable (Category: Breaking News)
The economy grew at 8.3% last year, the highest-ever pace, up from 8.0% in 2010. Per capita income went up from US$ 2,400 to $ 2,836. Fine, but we need to ask two questions: What are the costs incurred? Is this growth sustainable? Before that, a word of caution regarding the interpretation of Gross Domestic ...
- US employment gains slow, jobless rate drops (Category: Business)
- China gets red alert to avoid Japanification as consumer price drops drag inflation to lowest le... (Category: Breaking News)
- Inflation drops further in November, says CB (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s demand for legal booze drops by 30 percent (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Fresh from a big victory in raising $430 billion for the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde’s tougher test as head of the global lender will be finding a way to give emerging economies more influence. To do this, the former French finance minister will need to convince the Fund’s dominant powers – the United ...
- Global economy’s ‘timid’ recovery faces high risks: Lagarde (Category: Business)
- IMF Chief Lagarde emphasises Asia, China role in global recovery (Category: Business)
- Lagarde eyes $400 b rise in IMF funds this week; Japan pledges $ 60 b (Category: Business)
- BRICS demand bigger IMF role before giving it cash (Category: Business)
and shore up foreign exchange reserves, which had been drained owing largely to ...
- Lanka growth to dip below 7.5% – IMF (Category: Business)
- Reserves drop poses rating risk: Fitch, S&P (Category: Business)
- IMF’s take on Sri Lanka’s good, bad and the ugly (Category: Business)
- No need to raise interest rates further says Cabraal (Category: Business)
ISLAMABAD (Reuters): Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves rose to $16.51 billion in the week ended 30 March, from $16.44 billion in the previous week, the Central Bank said on Thursday. Reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) rose to $ 11.84 billion from $ 11.77 billion a week
- Emergency Package (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka forex reserves at record high-cenbank (Category: Breaking News)
- Forex reserves jump $5.9 bn to $595 bn (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF sees “challenging” outlook for Pakistan (Category: Business)
The challenges Sri Lanka has to face in its march towards development are manifold. Although the war has ended the wrong political ideologies, the proposals and timetables it created are still in operation. By Government Information Department Additional Director General Chandrapala Liyanage Similarly, various social activity groups and individuals and organisations operating under the advice ...
- President’s leadership led to great achievements in ICT: Weeratunga (Category: Business)
- Building resilience in Asia Pacific’s digital society (Category: Business)
- Namal on dynasties and democracies (Category: Business)
- EDB turns 33 (Category: Business)
Parliamentary accountability The Parliament, as the country’s foremost representative institution, has the sole authority over national resources and financial allocations and concurrently has a prominent role to play in fiscal responsibility, the budgetary process, economic development and effective transparent economic and financial management, with a view to assuring sustainable growth an...
- Chandra J sends his proposals for 2013 Budget to the President (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Time for reflection, reality check, risk mitigation and lessons learnt action (Category: Business)
DHAKA (Reuters): Bangladesh’s central bank chief urged private sector entrepreneurs on Thursday to seek loans from foreign sources, saying such credit would be cheaper and more readily available. “We have allowed the local corporates to borrow about $600 million (this financial year) from foreign sources,” Governor Atiur Rahman said. “I would really suggest you to ...
- Local firms borrow $ 197 m from abroad (Category: Business)
- Financing of 2011 Budget goes haywire (Category: Business)
- Central Bank emphatic dollars are coming (Category: Business)
- Pressure on rupee to ease on inflows: CB (Category: Business)
Citizens should make a noise The Central Bank’s former Assistant Governor and its long-time Director of Statistics, Dr. Anila Dias Bandaranaike, at a recently held exporters’ forum, expressed the view that the business community should make it their business to discuss, debate and deliver their views on economic policies being formulated by the country’s policy ...
- Flexible exchange rates and impact on exporters (Category: Business)
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- A monetary constitution to add on to the legal constitution? (Category: Business)
TOKYO: Japan and 12 other Asian countries will likely agree to double the amount of funds available under a regional currency swap pact amid uncertainty over the European debt crisis, a report said Sunday. Japan, China, South Korea and the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are to agree to double ...
- Is it safe to travel yet? Current travel guidelines for COVID-19 - CNET (Category: Technology)
- The Latest: US hits 20 million mark in coronavirus cases (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- The Latest: US hits 20 million mark in coronavirus cases (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Is it safe to travel yet? Current travel guidelines for COVID-19 - CNET (Category: Technology)
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s economic growth forecast will be lowered to a range of seven per cent to 7.5 percent due to tighter monetary policy and a rupee depreciation aimed at cutting the trade and current account deficits, the Central Bank said on Monday. Central Bank Chief Economist Swarna Gunaratne also told Reuters the 2011 balance-of-payments ...
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
- CB says 2012 trade gap to narrow by 10% (Category: Business)
- Growth is better than expected – CB (Category: Business)
SRI LANKA’S fabled post-war window of opportunity seems to be closing, with the Central Bank following the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in reducing growth rates for 2012. But does that mean only gloom awaits Sri Lanka or can we ride out the tide and reach the golden shores? The Central Bank had originally forecast this ...
- CB seen keeping rates steady for fifth straight month (Category: Business)
- Central Bank seen holding rates, SRR steady (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
By Dr. Arujuna Sivananthan The consensus view is that Sri Lanka is in the midst of a Balance of Payment (BOP) crisis. It usually follows a period of large capital inflows and rapid economic growth. However, due to conflicting policy responses or policy slippage including irresponsible credit creation, an economy finds itself in a position ...
- A Sudden Stop or a Balance of Payments Crisis - Dr. Arujuna Sivananthan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s central bank largely loses ability to create BOP deficits (Category: Breaking News)
- Seven Months (Category: Business)
Reuters: The Central Bank will soon lower its 2012 growth forecast of eight per cent to a figure no lower than seven per cent, owing to tighter monetary policy measures and the depreciation of the rupee, the Bank’s overnor told Reuters on Friday. The bank had originally forecast this year’s growth at eight per cent, ...
- Growth is better than expected – CB (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
- CB seen keeping rates steady for fifth straight month (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to cut growth to 7-7.5% (Category: Business)
Reuters: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday forecast Sri Lanka’s economic growth would cool to less than 7.5% due to its tighter monetary policy and currency depreciation measures, aimed at cutting the trade and current account deficits. The global lender has withheld the last $800 million left in a $2.6 billion loan program since ...
- IMF cuts Sri Lanka’s growth forecast but says future stable (Category: Business)
- IMF wants flexible policies maintained (Category: Business)
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- CB may take act on high credit growth (Category: Business)
Tyranny of the international capital markets Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, ex-Central Banker and International Civil Servant, did not mince words when he addressed the country’s exporters last week. The veteran economist, having made an assessment of the risks associated with Sri Lanka’s external sector crisis, warned that the country will have to grapple with “the tyranny ...
- High costs of poor performance or high returns of sound management (Category: Business)
- Appreciating exchange rates: Not a boon always (Category: Business)
- Flexible exchange rates and impact on exporters (Category: Business)
- No more IMF loan for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: The rupee rose sharply in early trade on Friday after the Central Bank slashed commercial banks’ net dollar opening positions, but retreated to close at marginally stronger. The rupee touched 119.00 a dollar, a gain of 2.8 per cent from Thursday’s close of 122.25/40, in early trading after the Central Bank’s order boosted dollar ...
- CB intervenes again to defend rupee (Category: Business)
- Rupee value: CB denies report, Reuters stands by its story (Category: Business)
- Rupee a tad weaker, stocks remain bearish (Category: Business)
- Markets becalmed (Category: Business)
CB says will intervene in high volatility Dealers say CB employing moral suasion By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lanka’s rupee hit a new record low on Tuesday on importer dollar demand, but a State bank sold greenbacks to reverse the drop in an apparent break with the Central Bank’s new policy ...
- CB expects currency volatility to ease (Category: Business)
- Rupee sinks to record low (Category: Business)
- Rupee down 3.1% after devaluation (Category: Business)
- Markets becalmed (Category: Business)
Reuters: China will continue to invest in euro zone government debt, the country’s central bank governor said on Wednesday, while calling on Europeans to produce more attractive investment products for China. Zhou Xiaochuan admitted that China and other emerging nations like Brazil, Russia or India were waiting for the right time to help the bloc, ...
- China urges EU to reach debt deal without delay (Category: Business)
- Europe bailout fund chief sees no quick China deal (Category: Business)
- China’s Wen: May consider bigger role in EU rescue funds (Category: Business)
- Euro zone recession may have already started: PMIs (Category: Business)
(Bloomberg): Sri Lanka doesn’t need to further tighten monetary policy for now even though an increase in fuel and transportation costs and a weakening currency may stoke inflation, the head of the central bank said. The central bank’s rate increase earlier this month will have a “demand-driven impact” and help moderate inflation, its Governor Ajith ...
- Sri Lanka stocks may slump more on rates – HSBC Private (Category: Business)
- CB Governor sees light at the end of the tunnel (Category: Breaking News)
- Rupee hits new low, but State intervenes (Category: Business)
- Rupee down (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s benchmark stock index, the world’s worst performer this year, may extend its slump as the central bank raises interest rates to curb inflation, according to HSBC Holdings Plc’s private banking unit. HSBC Private Bank, which oversees about $499 billion, will wait for stock valuations to fall to “single digit” multiples before it considers ...
- Stocks approach one-month low; rupee steady (Category: Business)
- China factory surveys signal economic growth stays soft in Q3 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Stocks May Slump More on Rates, HSBC Private Says (Category: Breaking News)
- CB seen holding rates, SRR steady – Reuters poll (Category: Business)
Reuters: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday welcomed Sri Lanka’s policy shift towards a flexible exchange rate, saying it will help contain the trade deficit and protect the nation’s dwindling foreign exchange reserves. In a marked policy shift, Sri Lanka’s Central
- No timing yet for Sri Lanka review prior to next loan disbursal: IMF (Category: Business)
- CB resumes repo auction after two-year lapse (Category: Business)
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- Consistent Policy (Category: Business)
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