Sri Lanka's tax revenues went up 25 percent from a year ago to 321.5 billion rupees in January 2025, while the overall budget deficit fell 28 percent, ahead of a state salary hike, official data show.

Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Governor, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, has underscored the critical role of sovereign credit rating agencies in helping debt-distressed nations smoothly transition out of default ...

MV Viking Drive, a roll-on/roll-off vehicle carrier operated by Seven Seals Company Ltd, had brought 1,560 used cars from ...

Electricity tariffs will increase by threefold in December, warns the Chairman of the United National Party (UNP), former ...

Central Bank (CB)) Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Treasury Secretary K.M.M. Siriwardana represented Sri Lanka at the ...

Led by Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, the Bangladesh delegation held a series of meetings with IMF representatives in ...

Governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and Treasury Secretary K.M. Siriwardana participated in the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR), which was held in Washington, DC, on 23 April on the sidelines of ...

In the aftermath of World War II, a new world order emerged through the formation of institutions like the UN, ...

Pakistan has put in a request to China to augment its existing swap line by 10 billion yuan (US$1.4bil), Finance Minister ...

The history of Pakistan’s rating by all three international agencies — Standard and Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch — is ...

Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), and Mr. K M M Siriwardana, Secretary to the ...

The country’s saving rate could have been 10 percentage points higher if its working-age population ratio matched that of its ...