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Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 June 2019

Since its introduction in February, the local real-time gross settlement (RTGS) dollar, a de facto new local currency, has lost over 60% of its value relative to the US dollar on…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 28 January 2016

Authorities took too long to adjust the exchange-rate regime under pressure from falling oil prices, wasting resources that could have been used to shore up the banking sector…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 22 December 2023

According to the constitution, the next presidential election must take place in September-October 2024, but parliamentary polls are not due until 2025. Wickremesinghe is heavily…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 19 February 2015

The incoming government has announced that its priorities for 2015 are improved road infrastructure and programmes to increase public security and reform education. Economy…

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