{"id":132940,"date":"2023-03-14T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=132940"},"modified":"2023-03-14T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T23:05:44","slug":"sri-lanka-clears-key-anti-corruption-legislation-mandated-by-imf-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/14\/sri-lanka-clears-key-anti-corruption-legislation-mandated-by-imf-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka clears key anti-corruption legislation mandated by IMF &#8211; spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy CNA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO : Sri Lanka has approved an anti-corruption legislation that is a key clause in the actions needed for its $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a government spokesperson said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed anti-corruption legislation is part of the IMF staff-level agreement that economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka agreed to last September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This anti-corruption legislation has been requested by many parties and will also help us get assistance from the IMF and other multilateral partners,&#8221; spokesperson Bandula Gunawardena told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This bill will ensure that funds received by Sri Lanka will be used in a responsible manner and for essential projects,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy CNA COLOMBO : Sri Lanka has approved an anti-corruption legislation that is a key clause in the actions needed for its $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a government spokesperson said on Tuesday. The proposed anti-corruption legislation is part of the IMF staff-level agreement that economic crisis-hit Sri Lanka agreed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132940","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=132940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}