{"id":91919,"date":"2019-08-03T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91919"},"modified":"2019-08-03T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:30:32","slug":"western-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/03\/western-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Western province"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nThe Western province provides the highest contribution to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gross_domestic_product\">Gross Domestic Product<\/a>&nbsp;contributing 41.2% of the Provincial Gross Domestic Product(PGDP) and has a nominal PGDP growth rate of 5.8% as of 2015.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agriculture\">Agriculture<\/a>&nbsp;only made up 1.7% of the GDP the lowest among the nine provinces while&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Industry\">Industrial sector<\/a>&nbsp;made up 34.6% the highest in the country and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_sector\">service sector<\/a>&nbsp;represented 56.5%.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Province,_Sri_Lanka#cite_note-20\">[19]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WesternProvice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WesternProvice.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WesternProvice-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/WesternProvice-768x944.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News The Western province provides the highest contribution to the&nbsp;Gross Domestic Product&nbsp;contributing 41.2% of the Provincial Gross Domestic Product(PGDP) and has a nominal PGDP growth rate of 5.8% as of 2015.&nbsp;Agriculture&nbsp;only made up 1.7% of the GDP the lowest among the nine provinces while&nbsp;Industrial sector&nbsp;made up 34.6% the highest in the country and&nbsp;service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91919","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=91919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}