{"id":91084,"date":"2019-07-05T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91084"},"modified":"2019-07-05T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T21:50:00","slug":"world-bank-classifies-sri-lanka-as-upper-middle-income-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/05\/world-bank-classifies-sri-lanka-as-upper-middle-income-country\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank classifies Sri Lanka as upper middle income country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, July 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; The World Bank has changed Sri Lanka&#8217;s classification from a lower-middle income country to an upper-middle income country under its latest country income classifications for the 2020 fiscal year, local media reports said here Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank in a statement said it had classified the world&#8217;s economies into four income groups, high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low and upgraded economies on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The classification is updated each year on July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, Sri Lanka inched into the upper-middle income category along with 4,060 U.S. dollars per capita income for 2019 along with Kosovo and Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Bank, this year has predicted Sri Lanka&#8217;s economic growth to 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, July 4 (Xinhua) &#8212; The World Bank has changed Sri Lanka&#8217;s classification from a lower-middle income country to an upper-middle income country under its latest country income classifications for the 2020 fiscal year, local media reports said here Thursday. The World Bank in a statement said it had classified the world&#8217;s economies into four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084","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=91084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}