{"id":129142,"date":"2022-10-11T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129142"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T22:46:22","slug":"sri-lanka-seeks-low-income-country-status-move-to-ease-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/11\/sri-lanka-seeks-low-income-country-status-move-to-ease-financial-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka seeks &#8216;low income country&#8217; status; move to ease financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy WION<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved a proposal to downgrade the country&#8217;s status from a middle-income country to a low-income country. The cabinet spokesperson says Sri Lankan GDP is expected to decline further and that this step was being taken to unlock more financial support from international institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy WION The Sri Lankan cabinet has approved a proposal to downgrade the country&#8217;s status from a middle-income country to a low-income country. The cabinet spokesperson says Sri Lankan GDP is expected to decline further and that this step was being taken to unlock more financial support from international institutions.<\/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-129142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129142","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=129142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}