{"id":132800,"date":"2023-03-08T15:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132800"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T22:39:20","slug":"lanka-set-to-get-imf-sign-off-on-march-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/08\/lanka-set-to-get-imf-sign-off-on-march-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka set to get IMF sign-off on March 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said The International Monetary Fund welcomes the progress made by Sri Lanka in &amp;ldquo;decisive&amp;rdquo; policy actions and in obtaining financing assurances from all major creditors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMF Chief said the IMF looks forward to presenting what will be the island nation&amp;rsquo;s 17th IMF programme to the international lender&amp;rsquo;s executive board on March 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said &amp;ldquo;The Extended Fund Facility will support the authorities&amp;rsquo; program of ambitious reforms, which will help Sri Lanka emerge from its current crisis and set it on a trajectory of strong and inclusive growth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approval by the Board would also catalyze financing from other creditors, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said The International Monetary Fund welcomes the progress made by Sri Lanka in &amp;ldquo;decisive&amp;rdquo; policy actions and in obtaining financing assurances from all major creditors. IMF Chief said the IMF looks forward to presenting what will be the island nation&amp;rsquo;s 17th IMF programme to the international lender&amp;rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imf-bailout-package"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132800","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=132800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}