{"id":124280,"date":"2022-04-13T15:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124280"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:36:17","slug":"imf-says-it-welcomes-sri-lankas-plans-to-engage-with-creditors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/13\/imf-says-it-welcomes-sri-lankas-plans-to-engage-with-creditors\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF says it welcomes Sri Lanka&#8217;s plans to engage with creditors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Channelnesasia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday (Apr 13) said that it supported Sri Lanka&#8217;s plans to engage in &#8220;collaborative dialogue&#8221; with creditors, a day after the country unilaterally suspended external debt payments amid a severe economic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We assessed Sri Lanka&#8217;s debt to be unsustainable and that the country&#8217;s fiscal efforts and macroeconomic policy adjustments alone could not restore debt sustainability,&#8221; Masahiro Nozaki, IMF\u2019s mission chief for Sri Lanka, told Reuters in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, we welcome the Sri Lankan authorities plan to engage in a collaborative dialogue with their creditors,&#8221; Nozaki said, adding that the IMF was assessing the specific implications of Sri Lanka&#8217;s recent announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Channelnesasia COLOMBO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday (Apr 13) said that it supported Sri Lanka&#8217;s plans to engage in &#8220;collaborative dialogue&#8221; with creditors, a day after the country unilaterally suspended external debt payments amid a severe economic crisis. &#8220;We assessed Sri Lanka&#8217;s debt to be unsustainable and that the country&#8217;s fiscal efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}