{"id":128943,"date":"2022-10-03T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128943"},"modified":"2022-10-03T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T22:40:01","slug":"world-bank-appreciates-govts-initiative-to-revive-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/03\/world-bank-appreciates-govts-initiative-to-revive-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank appreciates govt\u2019s initiative to revive economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe says the government\u2019s initiative to revive the economy of the country was appreciated by the World Bank during a special discussion held with Mr. Faris Hadad-Zervos, the World Bank\u2019s Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WB Country Director stated that the government is demonstrating its commitment by taking various measures to restore the collapsed economy, and encouraged them to continue on their path of further governance reforms, a comprehensive debt restructuring and progress on an IMF programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the World Bank is closely monitoring the situation in Sri Lanka, a statement said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe, Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Mahinda Siriwardena, Director General \/ Department of External Resources, Mr. Ajith Abeysekera, Director General \/ Department of Fiscal Policy, Dr. Kapila Senanayake and other officials participated in this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe says the government\u2019s initiative to revive the economy of the country was appreciated by the World Bank during a special discussion held with Mr. Faris Hadad-Zervos, the World Bank\u2019s Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The WB Country Director stated that the government is demonstrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128943","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=128943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}