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Sri Lanka declared the country was suspending payment on most foreign debt from April 12, 2022, kindling the Indian Ocean island's first sovereign default event and ending an unblemished record of repaying external debt despite experiencing milder currency crises in the past.
The South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) is a 2004 agreement that created a free-trade area of 1.6 billion people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the vision of increasing economic cooperation and integration.
Debt-stricken Sri Lanka signed a trade pact with Thailand on Saturday in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian ocean island nation is struggling to recover from its worst economic ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena. The Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA) is a proposed diplomatic arrangement that seeks to add to the existing free trade agreement between the Republic of India and the Republic of Sri Lanka, primarily in relation to trade-in services and the service sector; it seeks to emulate a proto freedom ...
"The next step will be for Sri Lanka to negotiate a deal with the sovereign bondholders," Jonas added. Sri Lanka's overseas bonds extended gains after the debt agreement was officially confirmed ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund and Sri Lanka have reached a staff-level agreement on economic policies to conclude the second review of a four-year bailout programme, the ...
The list of sovereign debt crises involves the inability of independent countries to meet its liabilities as they become due. These include: A sovereign default, where a government suspends debt repayments; A debt restructuring plan, where the government agrees with other countries, or unilaterally reduces its debt repayments
Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) PTA Bangladesh, China, Laos, Mongolia, South Korea, Sri Lanka 1975 ASEAN-India Trade in Goods Agreement: CECA ASEAN: 13 August 2009 1 January 2010 [7] ASEAN-India Trade in Services Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19] ASEAN-India Investment Agreement: November 2014 1 July 2015 [7] [19]