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The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]
Colombo Consumer price inflation 2020 : 4.2% April 2021 : 3.9%. Inflation in Sri Lanka measured by the Colombo Consumer Price Index grew 6.0% in the 12-months to August 2021 picking up from 5.7 percent in July. [135] Inflation was 4.2% in the year to December 2020. In 2019 inflation was 4.8 percent. [136]
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. The first case of the virus in Sri Lanka was confirmed on 27 January 2020, after a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei , China , was admitted to ...
The 2022 Sri Lankan protests, commonly known as Aragalaya (Sinhala: අරගලය, lit. 'The Struggle'), were a series of mass protests that began in March 2022 against the government of Sri Lanka. The government was heavily criticized for mismanaging the Sri Lankan economy, which led to a subsequent economic crisis involving severe inflation ...
[citation needed] SAFE consists of 17 exchanges from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bhutan. Its primary objectives are to encourage cooperation among its members to promote the development of their individual securities markets, to develop an integrated regional stock trading system, and to offer to list and trade securities ...
v. t. e. Sri Lanka joined the International Monetary Fund on August 29, 1950. [1] Since June 1965, Sri Lanka has taken 16 loans from the IMF, with a total value of 3,586,000,000 SDR's. The most recent of these loans was agreed to in June 2016, with an agreed total of 1,070,780 SDR's, and 715,230,000 SDR's being withdrawn.
Results. A referendum on extending the term of parliament by six years was held in Sri Lanka on December 22, 1982. It was the first and so far only national referendum to be held in the country. [3] The referendum was called for by President J. R. Jayawardene, who had been elected to a fresh six-year term as President in October 1982.
₹ 69 crore (US$8.3 million) 20 Kolkata Knight Riders: 6: 0 ₹ 51 crore (US$6.1 million) 19 Lucknow Super Giants: 5: 1 ₹ 69 crore (US$8.3 million) 20 Mumbai Indians: 5: 1 ₹ 45 crore (US$5.4 million) 20 Punjab Kings: 2: 4 ₹ 110.5 crore (US$13 million) 23 Rajasthan Royals: 6: 0 ₹ 41 crore (US$4.9 million) 19 Royal Challengers Bangalore ...