The Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, at its meeting held on 06 July 2022, decided to increase the Standing Deposit Facility Rate (SDFR) and the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) of the Central Bank by 100 basis points to 14.50 per cent and 15.50 per cent, respectively. Having noted the higher.
Global economic growth to moderate, while inflation to remain higher As per the January 2022 update of the World Economic Outlook (WEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global economy is expected to moderate from 5.9 per cent in 2021 to 4.4 per cent in 2022. The recovery in the global economic activity is.
Economic activity is expected to record a gradual recovery following a temporary setback As per the data released by the Department of Census and Statistics, domestic economic activity that was disrupted with the outbreak of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and related mitigative measures is estimated to have contracted by 1.5 per cent,.