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Finance Secretary Harshana Suriyapperuma announced that Sri Lanka has now passed the halfway point of the IMF programme funding, following the ...
The Japan – Sri Lanka Economic Cooperation Policy Dialogue – 2025 was held on July 04, at the Ministry of Finance, Planning ...
In my article “Is Sri Lanka’s recovery sustainable?” published in the Daily FT on 18 January 2024, I argued that Sri Lanka’s ...
The Director General of the Department of Fiscal Policy, Kapila Senanayake, stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri says Indian firms favour Sri Lanka due to cultural familiarity and proximity, as cross-border ...
Proposed amendments to Sri Lanka’s Companies Act of 2007, mandating the creation of public beneficial ownership registers, ...
Under an IMF-recommended amendment to the National Audit Act (NAA), the Auditor-General (AG) will be bound to notify the Chief Accountant of an audited entity to “immediately” complain to law ...
The casino economy became a magnet for organized crime, money laundering, prostitution, and loan sharking. Melco Resorts, a key player in Macau’s rise, now brings this same model to Colombo. The ...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is unlikely to reduce the policy or repo rate for the second half of this year as inflation ...
Sri Lanka is planning to discontinue a senior citizen interest subsidy scheme after abuse, after massive cost overruns and ...