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Sri Lanka's central bank is likely to maintain interest rates on Thursday in an effort to get a grip on inflation which has remained stubbornly high despite a sharp contraction in the crisis-hit economy.The post Sri Lanka Central Bank to hold rates as inflation worries persist appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka to hold rates as inflation slows slightly, focus on IMF bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka threatens administrative measures over high market interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank holds policy interest rates at current levels (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank to hold rates as inflation stays high (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- The Magic 2048: What Is To Be Done To Make Ranilnomics A Reality? (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA On Friday 23rd, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer was billed to present a mini-budget, but what he actually did took everyone by surprise, as it was a budget and half! It was full of tax cuts including the reduction of the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19%, […]
- Sri Lanka balances polls and crisis recovery in 2024 budget deliberations - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget, Taxation Turmoil and Policy Blunders – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to streamline tax structure, boost collections - Treasury Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt plans Revenue Authority to monitor underperforming IRD, Excise dept, Customs (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka co-hosted the CBSL-ADBI-APAEA Online Macroeconomics Conference for the third consecutive year, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), on 23 September 2022. This year’s theme remained
- Central Bank Governor optimistic about IMF approval for Sri Lanka’s second tranche of extended f... (Category: Breaking News)
- Discourse on economic crisis in Lanka at CSR (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL to maintain ‘dovish monetary policy in view of economic stabilization’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Bill presented to make Central Bank independent (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Debt Restructuring: Too Late & Too Short To Get Out Of The Debt Trap (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Demand Of 182 Academics For Cancelling Sri Lanka’s Foreign Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Common Perspectival Framework For A Center-Left Re-Groupment & Revival appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- SLPP Survival Depends On Shift To Dullas, Rejecting Ranil & The Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
- The Coming Firestorm & How To Get Rid Of Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day Thoughts: Political Economy Of The Ranil-SLPP-SLFP-UNP-SJB Convergence (Category: Breaking News)
The US central bank has pushed interest rates to the highest level in almost 15 years as it fights to rein in soaring prices in the world’s largest economy. The Federal Reserve announced it was raising its key rate by another 0.75 percentage points, lifting the target range to 3% to 3.25%. Borrowing costs are […]
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed raises US interest rates to highest in 16 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
By Stella Yifan Xie HONG KONG—The sharp slowdown in China’s growth in the past year is prompting many experts to reconsider when China will surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy—or even if it ever will. Until recently, many economists assumed China’s gross domestic product measured in U.S. dollars would surpass that of the […]
- Global IT spending on pace to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2012 – Gartner (Category: Business)
- Economic growth to surpass 6.5 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- India population to surpass China mid-year- U.N. estimates (Category: Breaking News)
- Vettel can surpass Schumacher – Lauda (Category: Business)
[…]The post Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The Partnership Between NPP & JVP Must Be Emboldened (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Ranil Creating The 2nd Batalanda? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Prospects At The Next Election (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Central Bank Independence: Issue To The Fore Again, But Will The Government Have Foresight To Do It? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- New Central Banking Bill: Positive But Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- New Central Bank Bill: Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- Deciding On New Central Bank Act Is Too Precious To Be Left Only To Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
No sign of abolishing price controls
- Sri Lanka’s new price controls on eggs could lead to shortages: poultry association (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bakery owners shift price control drumbeat from eggs to wheat flour (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s bakers call for price controls on wheat flour after hurting egg farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Fowl Policy (Category: Business)
[…]The post Prelude To Elections appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic Gloom, LG Polls & Coalitions Of Clowns (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- President Should Be Responsible! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
- IMF chief pleased SL reached staff-level deal for $2.9 billion (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha hints at Chinese hurdle in debt relief talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil’s Biggest Woe: What To Do When Fiscal & Monetary Policies Have Failed & Are Still Falling? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Demand Of 182 Academics For Cancelling Sri Lanka’s Foreign Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- New Central Banking Bill: Positive But Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Or A Prince? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil Wickremesinghe: A Pimp Without A Country (Category: Breaking News)
- Online bid to punish pimp (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Pimp gets 50 years at dramatic hearing (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Pimp jailed for 10 years (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Developments in Sri Lanka underline the risk of destabilising social and labour unrest throughout Asia-Pacific because of rising living costs impacting the region, S&P Global Market Intelligence said. Countries with similarly weak economic fundamentals and/ or poor economic policies have reduced resilience to external shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, high oil...
- Sri Lanka records slight drop in inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- WFP says 6.26 million people in Sri Lanka are food insecure (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s July consumer inflation more than halves to 4.6% (Category: Breaking News)
- China confirms two-year debt moratorium offered to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
British Politics and Ours Both Sri Lanka and the UK have experienced an unprecedented political upheaval of late. It is interesting that both leaders agreed to resign within a day of each other. Everybody else saw the ‘the end is nigh’ sign for quite a while. They didn’t or didn’t want to see it until […]
- Laksiri, Issadeen win open men’s and women’s titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Lochana, Warangana clinch singles titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Mihiran, Malshani adjudged best boxers at Nationals (Category: Breaking News)
Global un-employment set to rise
- Sri Lanka inflation hits 54.6-pct in June 2022 after money printing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, world suffers terribly from Fed’s accidental discovery: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed hikes rates 75bp as Powell Bubble pushes up food prices hurting the poor (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong, GCC pegs, Vietnam hike rates after Fed as Sri Lanka eyes flexible policy (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Impunity In Times Of Uncertainty appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-In-Chief In Both ACF & Five Students Cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Democratic Credentials? A Test, A Challenge! (Category: Breaking News)
- Commission Of Inquiry: Testify At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- The ACF Commission: To Exorcise Ghosts Of Truth That Continued To Haunt Regardless (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citizens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Online Safety Bill & Anti-Terror Bill – Law Making To End Democracy & Fundamental Rights Of Sri... (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- When Will Sri Lankan Children Be Prioritized In This Crisis? (Category: Breaking News)
- Obligations Of 225 MPs & The Party Leaders To The People Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Global Financial Crash Imminent in 2022? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Tips for business start-ups in 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Madame Ambassador Chung, Your Message Will Live On Forever! (Category: Breaking News)
- Prospects For Global Capitalism: 2023 & After (Category: Breaking News)
- Resolving Systemic Debt Crises Needs A Paradigm Shift (Category: Breaking News)
Indian billion dollar credit line also works Undiyal fashion
- Sri Lanka removes ban on open account food imports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka CB takes on task finding dollars for food after open account ban (Category: Breaking News)
Central bank gets ACU dollar to peg and also force purchase dollars through a surrender rule to prevent a float
- Sri Lanka central bank busts US$9.8bn since Feb 2020 to suppress rates, for stimulus (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka forex reserves edge up by slightly to US$1,717mn in September (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Lost Revolution appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- An Open Letter & Appeal To The IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP Proposal Points To Consensual Way Forward (Category: Breaking News)
- BASL; Altruistic Union That Does Not Stand For Its Members’ Sake But For The People (Category: Breaking News)
- The World After Mikhail Gorbachev & Sri Lanka After JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
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