Sri Lanka has made substantial progress on an IMF-supported economic reform program, but more work is needed to reduce the ...

Opening Remarks by the IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath at the Conference on “Sri Lanka’s Road to Recovery: Debt and Governance” Shangri-La Hotel Colombo ...

Sri Lanka is paying some foreign debts with tea, rather than cash. But an abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers has hurt crop yields and tea pickers are losing hours and wages as food prices double.

The International Monetary Fund is lending Sri Lanka $3bn (£2.4bn) to help it deal with its worst economic crisis in its history as an independent nation. Soaring prices, shortages of essential ...

By Mujib Mashal and Skandha Gunasekara Reporting from Ibbagamuwa, in Sri Lanka’s North Western Province, and Colombo, the capital. On the surface, calm has returned to Sri Lanka since the South ...

This March marks the mid-point of Sri Lanka’s four-year economic reform program supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the two years since its inception difficult but much needed ...

Lying off the southern tip of India, the tropical island of Sri Lanka has attracted visitors for centuries with its natural beauty. But it has been scarred by a long and bitter civil war arising ...

By Mujib MashalPamodi Waravita and Saif Hasnat Reporting from New Delhi, Colombo, and Dhaka Through Covid, political chaos, and economic disarray, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh kept one industry ...