Sri Lanka's headline inflation is expected to peak around 2 percentage points above the central bank's target in the second ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's headline inflation is expected to peak around 2 percentage points above the central bank's target in the second quarter of 2026, the bank said in a monetary policy report on ...

Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will present his first budget on Monday to outline how the island nation ...

The index closed 1.2% higher for the week. Sri Lanka’s headline inflation is expected to peak around 2 percentage points above the central bank’s target in the second quarter of 2026 ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s central bank has revealed that its demand for a 5 percent rise in cost of living a year was based on arguments including targets in the third world, econometrics involving ...

A record 312,836 people left the country last year, surpassing the previous record high of 310,953 hit in 2022, data from Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau showed. Chandranath Amarasekara, Central ...

By Panduka Karunanayake Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine and former Director, Staff Development Centre, University of Colombo (The 34th J.E. Jayasuriya Memorial Lecture14 February 2025 ...

According to the Central Bank, Sri Lanka’s economy was estimated to have grown by around five percent last year. However, with constrained resources, the Government must prioritise spending to achieve ...

Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread blackout over the weekend that disrupt ...