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Annual Economic Review 2024

 

Preliminary Pages

List of Acronyms

Key Economic Indicators

Key Social Indicators

Executive Summary

Chapters

1. Macroeconomic Developments 

2. Conditions of the Financial System

3. Review of the Central Bank’s Policies

4. Macroeconomic Outlook

Box Articles

1. Refining External Sector Statistics: Key Insights on Services Trade

2. Recent Banking Sector Reforms to Strengthen Resilience

3. Transition to a Single Policy Interest Rate Mechanism

4. Monetary Policy Accountability and Inflation Targets

Featured Charts

1.1. Trends in Domestic Fuel Sales and Prices

1.2. Importance of Cost Reflective Pricing for Utilities

1.3. Monthly External Current Account Statistics

1.4. Financing of the Pre-Crisis Current Account Deficit and Post-Crisis Dynamics of the Financial Account

1.5. Improving Sri Lanka’s Reserve Adequacy Indicators

1.6. Post-Crisis Turnaround of International Reserves

1.7. Exchange Rate Dynamics Under the Flexible Exchange Rate

1.8. Government Revenue, Expenditure and Key Fiscal Balances

Major Economic Policy Measures Implemented by or Related to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka 

Infographic: Recovery of the Sri Lankan Economy 

Statistical Appendix (online only version of Statistical Appendix in Excel format can also be accessed through this link)

Special Statistical Appendix (online only version of Special Statistical Appendix in Excel format can also be accessed through this link) 

 

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