{"id":149859,"date":"2025-05-28T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=149859"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:34:52","slug":"sri-lankan-economy-needs-2-3-more-years-to-recover-to-2018-levels-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/05\/28\/sri-lankan-economy-needs-2-3-more-years-to-recover-to-2018-levels-central-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"SRI LANKAN ECONOMY NEEDS 2-3 MORE YEARS TO RECOVER TO 2018 LEVELS &#8211; CENTRAL BANK"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of Sri Lanka estimates that it will take at least another two to three years for the country&#8217;s economy to return to the level it was at in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chandranath Amarasekara, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, made this statement while participating in a lecture on the annual economic review for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the cost of living had doubled by last year compared to 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News The Central Bank of Sri Lanka estimates that it will take at least another two to three years for the country&#8217;s economy to return to the level it was at in 2018. Dr. Chandranath Amarasekara, Assistant Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, made this statement while participating in a lecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149859","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=149859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}