{"id":93321,"date":"2019-09-25T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93321"},"modified":"2019-09-25T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T21:20:38","slug":"imf-cuts-sri-lankas-2019-growth-target-to-2-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/25\/imf-cuts-sri-lankas-2019-growth-target-to-2-7\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF cuts Sri Lanka&#8217;s 2019 growth target to 2.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Economy<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it has cut its forecast for Sri Lanka\u2019s 2019 economic growth to 2.7% from 3.5% as a political crisis in the last year and Easter attacks weigh on the tourism industry and broader business activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMF forecast is lower than the central bank\u2019s estimate of 3.1%, and would potentially be the slowest growth in nearly two decades. (Reporting by Shihar Aneez; Editing by Kim Coghill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economy COLOMBO, Sept 25 (Reuters) &#8211; The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it has cut its forecast for Sri Lanka\u2019s 2019 economic growth to 2.7% from 3.5% as a political crisis in the last year and Easter attacks weigh on the tourism industry and broader business activity. The IMF forecast is lower than [&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-93321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93321","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=93321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}