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[…]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 country has lost several hundred thousand jobs to Covid-19. The impact of the agrochemical ban on agriculture, the mismanagement of the exchange rate, a highly accommodative monetary policy, and the use of foreign exchange reserves for debt repayment thwarted the country’s ability to recover from the initial shock of COVID-19, an ILO study titled, […]
- Sri Lanka will be secured if India is secured - Gopal Baglay (Category: Breaking News)
- India hoping for early solution for Sri Lankan crisis through democratic means (Category: Breaking News)
- IT professionals leaving country (Category: Breaking News)
- U.S. announces additional $5.75 Mn in response to Sri Lanka s economic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Japan, one of Sri Lanka's main creditors, will back the South Asian nation as it seeks to restructure about $30 billion of its foreign debt and find a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Tokyo's envoy to the country said on Friday.The post Japan to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring negotiations appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Japan ready to support debt restructuring – Japanese Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan Grants USD 46 Million to Provide Diesel for Sri Lanka’s Hospitals (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan Grants USD 46 Million to Provide Diesel for Sri Lanka’s Hospitals (Category: Breaking News)
- Japanese Ambassador assures Japan’s support for Sri Lanka’s Economic development efforts (Category: Breaking News)
Japan, one of Sri Lanka’s main creditors, will back the South Asian nation as it seeks to restructure about $30 billion of its foreign debt and find a way out of a crippling economic crisis, Tokyo’s envoy to the country said on Friday. Reaching an agreement with creditors is key to Sri Lanka securing a […]
- India writes to IMF backing Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring plan (Category: Breaking News)
- SC allows proceedings against GR, MR to proceed (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Chinese-built Lotus Tower limits visiter time to 20 minutes (Category: Breaking News)
- Japan says no pact yet with Sri Lanka on debt restructure talks (Category: Breaking News)
A meeting was held with the minister and other stakeholders on September 06
- FAO to provide Urea, cash for crisis-hit Sri Lankan small-hold farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- World Bank to grant $110 mln loan to crisis-hit Sri Lanka for fertilizer import – Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka must rebuild agriculture sector immediately to prevent food shortages: PM (Category: Breaking News)
- European Union donates 3,820 tonnes of urea fertilizer to Sri Lanka’s paddy farmers (Category: Breaking News)
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka will begin on Friday the tricky task of debt renegotiation with a raft of private and bilateral creditors, including China, India and Japan, to restructure and repay nearly $30 billion that it owes.The post Sri Lanka set to begin talks to restructure debt of $30 Billion appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could wrap up debt restructure talks by Sept, president says (Category: Breaking News)
- Analysis: China paves Sri Lanka’s way to IMF funds, but debt talks remain uncertain (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank chief says sovereign lenders yet to outline debt talks plans (Category: Breaking News)
Aiming to establish control and authority over global politics, China’s upcoming naval base in Cambodia could be the latest example of establishing and fulfilling Beijing’s hegemonic interests in Southeast Asia. Both China and Cambodia took the first steps on a Beijing-funded upgrade of the Ream Naval Base in the southern part of the country. The […]
- US claims China considering military facility in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s security pact with Solomon Islands sends shivers down western nations’ spine (Category: Breaking News)
- China assures will not harm Sri Lanka’s interests (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s deal with Solomon Islands raises fears it may set up naval base (Category: Breaking News)
of the economy to individually import necessary fuel quantities, was challenged in the Supreme […]
- SC determines VAT Bill in line with Constitution if amendments made (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court finds Anti-Terrorism Bill inconsistent with Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- EC to inform court on issues faced ahead of LG polls (Category: Breaking News)
- SC commences hearing petitions against 22nd Amendment (Category: Breaking News)
Consumer inflation in Sri Lanka accelerated to 70.2% in August,the statistics department said on Wednesday, as the island nation reels under its worst economic crisis in decades.The post Sri Lanka inflation rate surges to 70.2% in August appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka consumer inflation hits record 73.7% in September (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate surges to record, keeps central bank pressured (Category: Breaking News)
- NCPI based headline inflation recorded at 70.2% on year-on-year basis in August 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President’s robust economic development program leads to 62.1% drop in inflation – Min... (Category: Breaking News)
Critics of the party have claimed that the party is trying to quietly sow public scepticism about the deal
- Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring likely to be complete by September – IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Exotic Appetites (Category: Business)
- We are almost there with IMF bailout – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka crisis would deepen if creditors disagree, IMF says amid China concerns (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post How We Came To This Pass – On The “Non-Rule Of Law System” appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- How We Came To This Pass: A Quest For Scapegoats (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – The Aragalaya Challenge (Category: Breaking News)
- Two Challenges: Economic Recovery & Political Devolution – IV (Category: Breaking News)
- How We Came To This Pass – Waiting On IMF (Category: Breaking News)
The week ended on September 15 saw 1027 suspected dengue cases reported in 23 districts
- Vaccine Hopes (Category: Business)
- Forex crunch boosts dengue spread (Category: Breaking News)
- Public Health Inspectors of Sri Lanka on strike amid a dengue outbreak (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka dengue cases double in first 19 weeks; shortage of chemicals weighs (Category: Breaking News)
Investor sentiment has turned buoyant after IMF comments
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sell Rs60bn mostly in 3-month bills, yield up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt office raises 21 pct of required debt via T-bills (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's economy shrank 8.4% in the quarter through June from a year ago in one of the steepest declines seen in a three-month period, amid fertiliser and fuel shortages during the nation's most severe financial crisis in more than seven decades.The post Sri Lanka’s economy shrinks 8.4
- Worker remittance income up in August amid Government incentives (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka economy shrinks 8.4-pct in 2Q amid currency crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Schools closed in Sri Lanka amid adverse weather (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President urges unity to safeguard economic stability amid IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island’s battered economy starts to stabilise after a preliminary loan agreement with the IMF. India has been the biggest provider
- Rights group seeks arrest of Gotabaya Rajapaksa in Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
- Bill to trim president’s powers likely to become law within weeks (Category: Breaking News)
- India eases Russian oil buying in July, boosts Saudi imports: Trade (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya Rajapaksa expected to go to Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
Shares have been on the rise mainly on positive sentiment after the IMF comments.
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sell Rs60bn mostly in 3-month bills, yield up (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka debt office raises 21 pct of required debt via T-bills (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Bairaha Farm’s profit soars over 200% on rising chicken price (Category: Breaking News)
India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island's battered economy starts to stabilise after a preliminary loan agreement with the IMF.The post India plans no more funding for Sri
- India commits to help Sri Lanka on debt in prospective IMF program (Category: Breaking News)
- USD 121 Million paid to India from first tranche of IMF loan received to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India promises Sri Lanka support through long-term investments (Category: Breaking News)
- India ‘strongly supports’ Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF (Category: Breaking News)
Agriculture contracted 8.4 percent, industry 10 percent and services 2.2 percent.
- 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 Downward Spiralling Economy: Increased Govt Spending & Reduced Revenue appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Taking Dictatorial Steps To Control Public Sri Lanka (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)
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Market sees over 600 million rupees of net foreign inflow
- Sri Lanka’s NTB profits down 12-pct in March quarter (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s People’s Leasing net down 37-pct in March (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb March net up on forex gains (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs80bn in mostly 3-month bills, down 18bp (Category: Breaking News)
Market saw net foreign inflow for the 18th session in the last 21.
- 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)
[…]The post Unholy Silence Of Holies appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Summons Youth For Economic Marathon (Category: Breaking News)
- Celebrating Independence Or Inaugurating Dependence? (Category: Breaking News)
- Will India Be The Game Changer For RW? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Political Rating & Fitch’s Credit Rating (Category: Breaking News)
A visiting U.S. diplomat on Sunday urged Sri Lankan authorities to tackle corruption and introduce governance reforms alongside efforts to uplift the country’s economy as a way out of its worst crisis in recent memory.The post USAID head urges crisis-hit Sri Lanka to tackle corruption appeared
- USAID Administrator Samantha Power meets Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe (Category: Breaking News)
- Political reforms need to accompany economic reforms in Sri Lanka – Samantha Power (Category: Breaking News)
- USAID will continue to support Sri Lanka’s recovery – Samantha Power assures (Category: Breaking News)
- Ten U.S. Congress members urge additional support for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]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)
Market has seen 5.52 billion in foreign outflow in last 19 sessions
- Sri Lanka sells Rs81bn in Treasuries, yields steady (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs50bn of Treasury bonds (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs127bn in bonds, 2032 on tap at 30.09-pct (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bourse slips ahead of policy rates, IMF (Category: Breaking News)
Bank marks 25 years in business
- U.S. commits USD 40M loan to support small businesses, empower Sri Lankan women (Category: Breaking News)
- SDB bank marks 25 years with network wide events (Category: Breaking News)
- Fitch Affirms Sanasa Dev Bank at ‘BB+(lka)’/Stable (Category: Breaking News)
- RAM reaffirms Sanasa Development Bank’s ratings at BBB/P3 with a stable outlook (Category: Business)
Market sees continuous net foreign buying in the last 10 sessions
- Sri Lanka bourse slips ahead of policy rates, IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares fall on profit taking (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks gain for third straight session led by market heavyweights (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sells Rs127bn in bonds, 2032 on tap at 30.09-pct (Category: Breaking News)
Day's turnover hits over 7-month high; foreign inflows hit highest in 3 years
- Sri Lanka shares slip over 2-pct in mid-day trade (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka stocks fall for third straight session; net foreign inflow hits over 3-yr high (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares end at new over 5-month peak in high turnover helped by Expolanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka shares plunge in mid-day trade on Lanka IOC, Expolanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Aragalaya’s Unfinished Business appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ranil’s Perilous Authoritarian Alternative (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Oracle For Peace, Stability & Growth (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW Summons Youth For Economic Marathon (Category: Breaking News)
Imports fall as financial account inflows dry up
- Sri Lanka investment goods, non-foods import fall overtakes oil cost in April 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Country's Reserves almost double - Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka imports fall in May as credit slows with rate hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Exports up 7.0 percent (Category: Breaking News)
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