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The Employees' Trust Fund (ETF) is a social security programme established on 1 March 1981 under the Act No.46 of 1980 by the Parliament of the Sri Lanka. [1] Contribution
The Sri Lankan economic crisis[ 8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [ 9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [ 9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities ...
Sri Lanka's newly appointed Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe sharply raised policy rates on April 8 allowing interest rates to go up and reduce money printing. [13] By end March foreign reserves were down to US$1.9bn and there were concerns over their actual usability since about US$1.5bn which had come from a Renminbi swap from China.
Sri Lanka is an island nation located in the Indian Ocean. Sri Lanka joined the International Monetary Fund on August 29, 1950. [1] Since June 1965, Sri Lanka has taken 16 loans from the IMF, with a total value of 3,586,000,000 SDR's. The most recent of these loans was agreed to in June 2016, with an agreed total of 1,070,780 SDR's, and ...
The Employees' Provident Fund, abbreviated to EPF, is a social security scheme of employees in Sri Lanka under the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. It was established under Act No. 15 of 1958 by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike , [ 3 ] and as of December 2010, it had Rs 899.6 billion, which is equivalent to 16% of the GDP. [ 4 ]
Sri Lanka itself lifted the ban on the LTTE before signing the ceasefire agreement in 2002. This was a prerequisite set by the LTTE for the signing of the agreement. [194] [195] The Indian Government extended the ban on the LTTE on the grounds of "their strong anti-India posture and threat to the security of Indian nationals". [196]
Sri Lanka still has to put the finishing touches to a preliminary agreement with bondholders on restructuring $12.5 billion of debt ahead of a third review by the International Monetary Fund (IMF ...
The mixed economy of Sri Lanka was worth $84 billion by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019 [ 32] and $296.959 billion by purchasing power parity (PPP). [ 33] The country had experienced an annual growth of 6.4 percent from 2003 to 2012, well above its regional peers.