Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes ...

The attack on benefits for the poor is part of unprecedented attacks on living standards, as the government imposes the ...

Sri Lanka's fragile economic recovery will be delayed as Cyclone Ditwah's devastation of homes, roads and vital crops pushes ...

Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka & Maldives and David Newhouse, World Bank Senior Economist Daily FT Over the past decade, Sri Lanka has made rapid strides in ...

A United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) report titled Investing in the future: A universal benefit for Sri Lanka’s children has revealed some of the dire conditions facing ...

Despite Sri Lanka’s recent strong economic performance, the country’s poverty levels remain significantly high, according to the World Bank’s latest development update, Better Spending for All. The ...

This post was first published by Sri Lankan academician Professor Wasantha Athukorala in Groundviews, an award-winning citizen media website. An edited version is published here as part of a ...

COLOMBO, February 16, 2016—Sri Lanka has made encouraging progress in reducing poverty to below 7 percent of the population, but pockets of severe poverty remain and future prosperity will depend on ...

In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family’s last remaining handful of dried fish – a reminder of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in decades. She is just one of the ...

When Denuwarage Kusumalatha (54) saw flood water reach her doorstep in the wee hours of Nov. 29, it was already too late. A ...

Sri Lanka has one of the most rapidly ageing populations in Asia. Ceylinco Life Insurance is helping to make sure the country is well prepared for this demographic shift Although Sri Lanka is ...