The Central Bank’s COVID Response | Finding balance between financial sector stability and credit growth
ICRA Lanka believes maintaining the soundness of the financial system is of paramount importance to long term...
Insights
Sector Outlook | Construction
Construction sector is expected to demonstrate resilience compared with other economic sectors of Sri Lanka...
Sector Outlook | NBFIs
ICRA Lanka expects the outlook for Sri Lanka Non-banking Financial Institutes (NBFIs) to be more challenging than for ...
Insights | Plantations
Tea prices soar despite COVID-19 disruptions, but the sustainability of the current price levels should be reviewed in the medium/long term.
Monthly
Updates
September 2020
The activities in the industrial and services sector seemed to have flattened out and operating with a slack, as seen from levelled...
August 2020
Activities in the economy especially in the industrial and services sectors, slowed down during the first half of August due ...
July 2020
July began with the call and repo rates nearing the lower bound of the policy corridor. Subsequently, the CBSL cut the policy rates by ...
Midyear Economic Update 2020
The CBSL maintained accommodative monetary policy throughout 1H 2020 primarily to help...