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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 ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka is asking international bond holders to take a 30% haircut and is seeking similar concessions from investors in its domestic dollar-denominated notes as it seeks to ...
A Malaria eradication policy of 1946 had cut the death rate from 20 per thousand in 1946 to 14 by 1947. Life expectancy at birth of a Sri Lankan in 1948 at 54 years was just under Japan's 57.5 years. Sri Lanka's infant mortality rate in 1950 was 82 deaths per thousand live births, Malaysia 91 and Philippines 102. [66]
The Sri Lankan Rupee ( Sinhala: රුපියල්, Tamil: ரூபாய்; symbol: රු (plural) in English, රු in Sinhala, ௹ in Tamil; ISO code: LKR) is the currency of Sri Lanka. It is subdivided into 100 cents ( Sinhala: සත, Tamil: சதம் ), but cents are rarely seen in circulation due to its low value. It is issued ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis. The Israel Defense Forces recover the bodies of six hostages, including Alex Dancyg, from the Khan Younis area, who were kidnapped by Hamas in the initial October 7, 2023 attack. (Reuters) Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Sri Lanka's newly appointed Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe sharply raised policy rates on April 8 allowing interest rates to go up and reduce money printing. [13] By end March foreign reserves were down to US$1.9bn and there were concerns over their actual usability since about US$1.5bn which had come from a Renminbi swap from China.
Sri Lanka is an island nation located in the Indian Ocean. 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 ...
On 14 October 2023, Narendra Modi announced that India and Sri Lanka are working on connecting UPI with Lanka Pay. [210] On 10 November 2023, the successful integration was shown by scanning LANKAQR with PhonePe. As per LankaPay CEO Channa de Silva, the integration will help Indian tourists pay in 450K+ locations in Sri Lanka. [211]