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Sri Lanka

  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Sri Lanka reaches deal with creditor nations over $5.8bn of debt

    Agreement to restructure borrowings is ‘significant milestone’ towards ending debt crisis, says finance minister

    A vendor sorts vegetables at a market in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Travelista
    Four escapes for adventurous souls

    Whether you long to explore Japanese temples, Brazilian lagoons or the wilds of Svalbard

    The NWS yacht RV Kinfish sails among icebergs in Svalbard/A herd of elephants in Sri Lanka
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    The Sri Lanka-linked future of macro-linked bonds

    Facile hurdles undermine a good idea

  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    News in-depthSovereign bonds
    New form of bond emerges from Sri Lanka’s $13bn restructuring talks

    Macro-linked debt could be tied to GDP and reforms and may help attract investors back to emerging markets

    A street vendor sells prawns and sea-food at her kiosk at the Galle Face Beach in Colombo
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Global Economy
    Blurred [sovereign debt restructuring] lines

    Would an official sector creditor by any other name be treated as sweetly?

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    InterviewIndian economy
    India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank

    South Asia has world’s fastest economic growth but is failing to create jobs, says multilateral lender

    Indian villagers work on a cumin crop in Rajasthan
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
    House museums #60: architect Geoffrey Bawa

    The Sri Lankan built his Colombo home to embrace the tropical terrain and look his country ‘squarely in the face’

  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana’s favourite bars around the world

    From Madrid to Melbourne via Colombo, Copenhagen and Cartagena: 13 of the cocktail maestro’s top watering holes

    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    Sri Lanka raises hopes of resolution to $13bn debt stand-off

    Bankrupt nation aims for restructuring soon, but private creditors say they have been left ‘in the dark’

    Visitors gather at Galle Face promenade  in Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Sri Lanka agrees debt restructuring with Paris Club creditors

    Agreement with national lenders including India and Japan clears way to revive IMF bailout

    Sri Lanka president Ranil Wickremesinghe in his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka on November 28 2023
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    US lends $553mn to majority Adani-owned port in Sri Lanka

    Washington and New Delhi compete with Beijing for influence in region

    A picture of Sri Lanka’s West Container Terminal
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    Sri Lanka has its stay — and it comes with a twist

    Well dang

  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    Sri Lanka reaches preliminary debt deal with China’s Exim Bank

    Agreement on $4.2bn from largest bilateral creditor could pave way for release of IMF funds

    A vendor arranges vegetables as he waits for customers at a market in Colombo
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    World
    Sri Lanka’s US cavalry is here

    Too bad they didn’t bring any big guns

  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Asia-Pacific economy
    India and south Asia forecast to grow more quickly than other regions

    World Bank praises countries for strong fundamentals but says hitting development targets still ‘a long way to go’

    Gantries at an Indian port
  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    Sri Lanka fails to reach agreement to unlock next IMF bailout tranche

    Delay threatens to slow country’s recovery from the worst economic crisis in its history

    University lecturers hold up signs saying Stop the Unfair Taxation
  • Monday, 25 September, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    How Sri Lanka can uncover its mysterious legal adversary

    Bond doc adventures

  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    Another friendly Sri Lankan intervention

    Friends of the court assemble!

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    The mysterious ‘global financier’ suing Sri Lanka

    Cunning new vulture investor or Poundland Elliott?

  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Is the IMF setting Sri Lanka up for a second car crash?

    Dangerous DSAs

  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    A Sri Lankan debt twist

    The US government Has Some Thoughts

  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Sri Lanka commits to $42bn domestic debt restructuring

    Government declares holidays until Tuesday to try to head off any run on banks

    Sri Lanka’s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Sri Lanka’s farmers learn lessons from organic debacle

    The country’s ban on chemical fertilisers backfired, but still sharpened interest in greener alternatives

    A woman puts her hands in freshly picked leaves in a Sri Lankan tea factory
  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Sovereign debt
    Raise a glass to freedom . . . from debt restructurings

    What a CACastrophe

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    HTSI
    The spice is right at Rambutan, London’s newest Sri Lankan restaurant

    Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s dazzling Tamil flavours are worth the wait

    Dingley Dell pork dry curry at Rambutan
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