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[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Evil Is Not Mere Money Printing, But Unbridled Government Expenditure (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? (Category: Breaking News)
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- A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladesh has stated that it would be hopeful Sri Lanka could pay back the $200 million debt that it owes to the country by March 2023, said a news report published by BD News 24, an English and Bengali language news website of Bangladesh. The report said: Abdur Rouf Talukder, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, provided […]
- Sri Lanka pays off $200 million loan from Bangladesh with $4.5 million interest (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka returns another $100 million to Bangladesh (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh extends time granted for Sri Lanka to pay USD 200m loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka given more time to repay Bangladesh’s $200 Million loan (Category: Breaking News)
By Mahinda Panapitiya Introduction Due to recent climatic changes taking place at global level the whole world is now heading for a disaster environmentally unless some kind of a middle path is adapted in economic planning for future development projects. Therefore, the recent request made by President Ranil Wickremesinghe from the Asian Development Bank to […]
- What is wrong with President’s Vision and Mission? (Category: Breaking News)
- Jha highlights growing Indian power, reiterates commitment to strengthening ties with SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Use existing resources for agri-food sector in Mahaweli areas (Category: Breaking News)
- Another electricity tariff hike: Is there no option for Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
Addressing the Human Capital Ministerial meeting at the World Bank, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe emphasized that human capital will remain at the core of the development and growth process going forward in Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh is hopeful that Sri Lanka will repay the debt of $200 million that it owes to the country by March 2023.The post Bangladesh hopeful Sri Lanka will repay debt of $200 Million by March 2023 appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka given more time to repay Bangladesh’s $200 Million loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh hopeful Sri Lanka will repay $200 million debt on time (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh reminds SL of its loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh expects Sri Lanka to repay $200 million by March 2023 (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Sri Lanka had further discussions on the steps Sri Lanka must take to obtain approval for the proposed Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme. The Sri Lankan delegation to the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings 2022 led by the State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe, had a fruitful discussion with the […]
- IMF holds key talks with Sri Lankan delegation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s creditors to hold crucial talks next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Delegation heading to US for talks with IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF wants secrecy till final deal with Sri Lanka reached (Category: Breaking News)
Bangladesh is hopeful that Sri Lanka will repay the debt of $200 million that it owes to the country by March 2023. Abdur Rouf Talukder, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, provided a positive outlook on the matter after a meeting with his Sri Lankan counterpart Nandalal Weerasinghe in the United States. The central bank chief travelled […]
- Bangladesh gives Sri Lanka more time to repay $200 million loan (Category: Breaking News)
- Bangladesh gives Sri Lanka 6 more months to repay $200m loan (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF reiterates prior actions Sri Lanka must take to approve funds (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka thrashes Bangladesh in second Test, wins series (Category: Breaking News)
There are no price controls on bread
- Bakery owners in Sri Lanka lament the loss of business due to increased wheat flour prices (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bakery owners shift price control drumbeat from eggs to wheat flour (Category: Breaking News)
- Bread Prices Increased (Category: Breaking News)
- Wheat Flour Prices Push Bakers Out Of Business (Category: Breaking News)
The bonds were bought despite a threat of a second hair cut or restructuring of rupee bonds
- Market Open (Category: Business)
- Bond Direction (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka bourse down in thin trade on credit woes (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rejects bids for 2025 bonds, some 2029 bonds sold (Category: Breaking News)
ECONOMYNEXT –Sri Lanka is seeing a rise in sexually transmitted disease detections as inexperienced sex workers enter the profession, health officials say.Traditional high-risk communities including drug users and homosexual persons with multiple partners continue to be factors in the rise of STIs, according to health officials.According to the National STD/AIDS Control Programme, 4,556 HIV patien...
- Sri Lanka sees new sex workers after currency collapse, rise in STI, HIV detections (Category: Breaking News)
- A departure from the 1995 Age of Consent Legislation (Category: Breaking News)
- World population to reach 8 Bn tomorrow (15), says UN Report (Category: Breaking News)
- 47 Sri Lankan children living with AIDS (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranilnomics: Learning Nothing, Forgetting Everything appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- A Tale Of Two Addendums & Ekwa Negitimu Miscarriage (Category: Breaking News)
- The World After Mikhail Gorbachev & Sri Lanka After JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
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- Russian Presidential Election Results (Category: Breaking News)
- NATO Expansion: The Untold Agreement & Its Role In The Ukraine War (Category: Breaking News)
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- Qualified Candidates Essential For System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Chasing The Mirage Of National Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Musings On A New Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund is working with other multilateral lenders including the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on financing programmes for Sri Lanka, the IMF’s Deputy Director for Asia Pacific says.The post IMF working with multilateral lenders on financing programmes for Sri Lanka appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- IMF working with multilateral lenders on financing programmes for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Global lenders eye coordinated assistance for Sri Lanka – Government (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club to give Sri Lanka financing assurances amid IMF debt talks – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- India ‘strongly supports’ Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund is working with other multilateral lenders including the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on financing programmes for Sri Lanka, the IMF s Deputy Director for Asia Pacific says.
The recent tax increases introduced by the government will result in massive social unrest, MP Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday (October 14).The post Tax hikes will lead to massive social unrest – Patali Champika appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Patali Champika to contest LG polls together with Kumara Welgama (Category: Breaking News)
- Patali proposes to increase electricity tariffs of those using more than 180 & 300 units per month (Category: Breaking News)
- Patali Champika Ranawaka leaves Jathika Hela Urumaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Patali Champika Ranawaka leaves Jathika Hela Urumaya (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reiterated the prior actions Sri Lanka must take for the IMF board to approve the disbursement of funds. Deputy Director, Asia and Pacific Department at the International Monetary Fund, Anne-Marie Gulde, said that the conditions involve securing assurances from bilateral creditors and dealing with the private sector debt. “Sri […]
- IMF wants fiscal policy in Sri Lanka that protects most vulnerable (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF and Sri Lanka discuss steps to be taken to secure funds (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank confident on Sri Lanka deal with IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF notes progress in Sri Lanka’s economic reforms program (Category: Breaking News)
Western countries this week ratcheted up their criticism of China, the world's largest bilateral creditor, as the main obstacle to moving ahead with debt restructuring agreements for the growing number of countries unable to service their debts.The post Global finance leaders single out China as barrier to faster debt relief appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ON...
- Yellen ‘eager’ to work with China on debt, other global challenges (Category: Breaking News)
- Janet Yellen warns United States could run out of cash by June 1 (Category: Breaking News)
- Janet Yellen warns US could run out of cash by June 1 (Category: Breaking News)
- India a trusted trading partner in ‘friendshoring’ strategy: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (Category: Breaking News)
Working very closely with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Investment Bank
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The global economy is “dangerously close” to a recession, as inflation remains elevated, interest rates rise, and growing debt burden hits the developing world, World Bank President David Malpass said. “We’ve lowered our 2023 growth forecast from 3 per cent to 1.9 percent for the global growth, that’s dangerously close to a world recession,” Malpass […]
- World Bank chief Malpass faces calls to quit after dodging questions on climate change (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank chief warns over global recession (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank and IMF warn of risks of global recession (Category: Breaking News)
- No region immune to Europe crisis: World Bank Chief (Category: Business)
Neither India nor China have responded to Paris Club overtures to coordinate closely on Sri Lanka’s debt talks, Reuters reported yesterday.The Paris Club reached out to the two countries, who are among Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditors, last month.Reuters added that Paris Club officials met Indian officials on the sidelines of the annual meetings of […]
- Paris Club ready to start debt relief for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club provides financing assurances to support IMF bailout for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club says aims to start Sri Lanka debt negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club provides financing assurances to IMF on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Government will present the appropriation bill to the parliament on October 18
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs81bn in Treasuries, yields steady (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs127bn in bonds, 2032 on tap at 30.09-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain on financials; Sampath Bank leads (Category: Breaking News)
Investors have been eying mostly on short term T-bill buying amid debt restructuring threats
- Nearly half of NYC residents not sold on getting COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds (Category: USA, New York)
- Nearly half of NYC residents not sold on getting COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds (Category: USA, New York)
- Nearly half of NYC residents not sold on getting COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds (Category: USA, New York)
- Nearly half of NYC residents not sold on getting COVID-19 vaccine, survey finds (Category: USA, New York)
[…]The post IMF Must Become More Than Just A Debt Collector For Private Creditors appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Some creditors want to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt without China (Category: Breaking News)
- The Paris Club, Dollar Debt Colonialism & Asia’s New “Donors”: Reforming The International Aid A... (Category: Breaking News)
- China holds key to Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring to ease economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Younger persons turning to commercial sex with unsafe practices
- Lanka sees new sex workers after currency collapse, rise in STI, HIV detections (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s JKH profits soar driven by forex gains as soft-peg collapses (Category: Breaking News)
- Rise In T Bill Yields Portends Lending Rate Hike (Category: Breaking News)
- 47 Sri Lankan children living with AIDS (Category: Breaking News)
The Paris Club creditor nations last month reached out to China and India seeking to coordinate closely on Sri Lanka’s debt talks but is still awaiting a reply, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Paris Club officials reached out to two of Sri Lanka’s biggest bilateral creditors after the crisis-hit nation […]
- China yet to respond positively to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Official creditors and Sri Lanka agree in principle on debt restructuring (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Foreign Minister to arrive in Sri Lanka next week (Category: Breaking News)
- France in talks with creditors on Sri Lanka issue (Category: Breaking News)
The Paris Club creditor nations last month reached out to China and India seeking to coordinate closely on Sri Lanka's debt talks, but is still awaiting a reply, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.The post Paris Club ready for close coordination with China, India on Sri Lanka debt talks – source appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri...
- Paris Club to give Sri Lanka financing assurances amid IMF debt talks – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan, India and France launch creditors meeting on Sri Lanka debt (Category: Breaking News)
- No response from India, China to Paris Cub beckoning them to help in Lanka’s debt talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Paris Club ready for close coordination with China, India on Sri Lanka debt talks (Category: Breaking News)
Chairman of the National Council sub-committee on identifying short-and medium-term programmes related to economic stabilisation, Patali Champika Ranawaka, yesterday ordered the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Census and Statistics to conduct a National Households Survey for 2022 immediately. Ranawaka mentioned that this survey had not been conducted during the last three years. The [...
- Parliamentary committee calls for proper methodology to select social security scheme beneficiar... (Category: Breaking News)
- Raids lead to increase in Excise revenue (Category: Breaking News)
- Champika pours out more details about latest sugar scam (Category: Breaking News)
- Champika appointed chairman of National Council sub-committee (Category: Breaking News)
Survey reveals deep-rooted Mercantilism and total lack of classical economics
- Sri Lanka needs political stability, fiscal measures for IMF deal: CBSL union (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka continues to soft-peg in May intervening in both directions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka non-oil imports down in March 2022 as soft-peg collapses (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka halts imports of over 300 items (Category: Breaking News)
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