Sri Lanka to pay ‘interest subsidy’ to senior citizens as rates fall
Dec 28, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will give '20 percent bonus' interest for senior citizens as interest rates fell steeply over the past year on a scheme …
Dec 28, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will give '20 percent bonus' interest for senior citizens as interest rates fell steeply over the past year on a scheme …
HONG KONG, December 27, 2009 (AFP) - Explosive growth in economic and political power ensured that the past 10 years set the foundations for what many analysts …
Dec 26, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's labour force has grown an average 1.0 percent from 1990 to 2008, and is projected to grow by only 0.3 percent a year …
Dec 26, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's opposition presidential candidate, a former military general, defended his ability to manage the economy in a future …
Dec 25, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has signed up 410 million US dollars of funding from China including money to build an international airport in the south of the …
Dec 24, 2009 (LBO) - A steep state worker salary hike promised by opposition presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka would require 132 billion rupees to be …
Dec 23, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is seeking a 150 million dollar emergency assistance loan from the Asian Development Bank that could help start urgent projects, …
Dec 21, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has generated 234,000 service sector jobs in the third quarter of 2009 from a year earlier, though 89,000 jobs were lost in …
Dec 21, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to get about 350 million US dollars of aid from the Asian Development Bank next year, much of it going for the north and east …
Dec 21, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lankan businesses are compelled to look overseas to expand sales as the domestic market is too small, a senior corporate executive …
Dec 19, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka will change the basket of goods in its most widely watched price index from next year and re-base it to reflect consumption …
Dec 18, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's war refugee re-settlement efforts will get World Bank fund to re-build infrastructure and economic activities, in the north …
Dec 18, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's economic growth slowed to 4.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009 from 6.3 percent a year earlier, but was up from 2.1 …
Dec 18, 2009 (LBO) - The head of Sri Lanka's top business chamber has called for an end to tax exemptions given to public servants, saying it was unfair by …
Dec 17, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lankan people are being fooled by state subsidies when high inflation triggered by big budget deficits erodes their income, the head …
Dec 15, 2009 (LBO) - The Asian Development Bank said it has approved a project to build roads linking isolated rural villages in Sri Lanka that will employ …
Dec 15, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will have to keep pace with global accounting standards to attract foreign investments as competing regional economies …
Dec 15, 2009 (LBO) – A public seminar is to be held to educate politicians and their economic advisors on how best to meet the needs of people, ahead of …
Dec 14, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is to host its first ever business expo in the North of the island, following the end of the country’s over three decade …
Dec 14, 2009 (LBO)- Sri Lanka's central bank said it was holding its key policy rate at which money is injected to the economy at 9. online pharmacy buy …