Sri Lanka fell into an unprecedented crisis as a result of a series of shocks and policy missteps. Debt rose to unsustainable levels resulting from large fiscal imbalances, and access to international ...

Former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Sri Lanka next week to witness the signing of an agreement between the Global Green Growth Initiative (GGGI) and the Ministry of ...

The agenda of drastic dismantling and total remodeling of Sri Lanka is signaled in outgoing UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s farewell speech to the UN General Assembly. Ban Ki-moon’s speech ...

Sri Lanka’s access to international capital markets was lost in 2020, prompting a decline of international reserves to critically low levels and large-scale direct lending to the government by the ...

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 ...

COLOMBO, March 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will relax its currency band from next week, its central bank said on Friday, as part of efforts to move towards a market-determined exchange rate as it ...

UNITED NATIONS — Sri Lanka's decisive 2008-09 military offensive ... according to a U.N. panel established by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The panel recommended that Ban set up an ...