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The Employees' Provident Fund, abbreviated to EPF, is a social security scheme of employees in Sri Lanka under the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.It was established under Act No. 15 of 1958 by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, [3] and as of December 2010, it had Rs 899.6 billion, which is equivalent to 16% of the GDP. [4]
It is considered as one of the most systemically important banks in Sri Lanka. It is the largest lender to Sri Lanka's Small and Medium Enterprise sector. [7] The Ministry of Finance of Sri Lanka revealed that the Commercial Bank of Ceylon was the biggest lender to SME sector for the year 2020 amounting to an estimated amount of 21.6 billion ...
According to the International Monetary Fund, Sri Lanka's GDP in terms of purchasing power parity is second only to the Maldives in the South Asian region in terms of per capita income. As of 2010, the service sector makes up 60% of GDP, the industrial sector 28%, and the agriculture sector 12%. [1] The private sector accounts for 85% of the ...
Taxation in Sri Lanka mainly includes excise duties, value added tax, income tax and tariffs. [1] Tax revenue is a primary constituent of the government's fiscal policy . The Government of Sri Lanka imposes taxes mainly of two types in the forms of direct taxes and indirect taxes.
This article lists the largest companies in Sri Lanka terms of their revenue, net profit and total assets, according to the American business magazines Fortune and Forbes and local business magazine LMD. [1] [2]
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [39] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [40]
The Sri Lankan banking industry was changed during the late 1980s with the introduction of automation by private banking corporations. [10] Previously, few foreign banks were operating within Sri Lanka with few branches such as Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, etc. HSBC was using interactive electronic customer interfaces such as automated teller machines (ATMs).
SANASA Development Bank PLC, commonly called SDB bank, is a Sri Lankan bank serving the co-operative sector, [3] founded in 1997. This bank has opened 94 branches in Sri Lanka . In 1997 SDB Bank was granted the status of Licensed Specialized Bank by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka .