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33 countries will participate in event that will run until March 28

By Chair of our Academic Programme and former Economic Adviser at the World Bank, Dr. Sarath Rajapatirana, and our Senior Research Fellow, and former Director of CBSL, Dr. Roshan Perera  The available foreign reserves of the country can be used to either repay foreign creditors or to finance imp

Repaying foreign debt or financing essential imports? The available foreign reserves of the country can be used to either repay foreign creditors or to finance imports of essential goods and services required by its citizens. This is the dilemma facing Sri Lanka today. Repaying the full value of the bond using the limited foreign reserves […]

Weekly Economic Indicators released by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) for 1 – 7 January 2022 show crude oil prices taking an upward trend. “During the period under review prices increased mainly due to hopes on further demand recovery in 2022. Decision of OPEC+ countries to adhere to their planned increase for February […]

The world’s biggest memory-chip and smartphone maker forecast operating profit of $11bn (£8bn) for the three months to the end of June. It said strong demand for memory chips had offset weaker sales of devices due to the shortage of components. A year ago, in the first few months of the pandemic, Samsung saw sales […]

Colombo-based think tank Advocata Institute said it is hosting an online forum on The Role of International Trade in Economic Recovery in Sri Lanka, as the island is mired in the worst import controls since the 1970s after printing money.

The Advocata Institute event on “ The Role of  International Trade in Economic Recovery in Sri Lanka” The Advocata Institute launches its second episode of the public policy discussion series ‘DeepDive’, which will be on the Topic “The Role of Trade in the Economic Recovery of Sri Lanka”. The  discussion  was kickstarted with a primer...