Sri Lanka has not yet released the IMF staff review of the economy was given to the board of the lender to support the release of a decision to disburse 213 million dollar tranche under a 2.5 billion dollar program.
In contrast, a staff report for Pakistan under its program, dated September 10 was made public on September 20. An October 2009 IMF economic report was released only in August 2010, almost a year later.
Sri Lanka's budget deficit, which is the key source of instability to the economy, is monitored under a local borrowing ceiling (net domestic financing or NDF) set at 279,600 billion rupees. No figures were given for the actual achievement, in the statement.
Inflation is kept in check with a target for money creation defined as reserve money, or the narrowest form of money supply through which final transactions in the economy is cleared was set at 349.
2 billion rupees for end September.
Central Bank data, released separately showed that reserve money was 338.4 billion rupe