Sri Lanka

BMI View: Sri Lanka risks a full-blown economic crisis, if it does not bring rampant inflation under control. Other factors contributing to a potential crisis include the island's... 2008-07-04

BMI View: Despite the economy's resilience in 2007, we envisage a deceleration of real GDP growth to 6.0% in 2008, because of the civil war, high inflation, and the slowdown in the... 2008-07-04

Colombo has seen a series of bomb attacks on buses and trains lately that have resulted in at least 32 deaths and more than 100 injuries. The government has blamed these attacks on... 2008-06-13

Highways and Road Construction Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle was assassinated on April 6 by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber, in an incident which killed at least 13 others.... 2008-04-11

BMI View: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL)'s introduction of a measure for core inflation suggests the bank will continue refraining from hiking interest rates. However, while... 2008-04-03

BMI View:We are estimating real GDP expansion of 6.3% in 2007, and envisage a deceleration to 6.0% in 2008, because the civil war is clearly escalating. In February we raised our... 2008-03-10

BMI View: We are estimating real GDP expansion of 6.3% in 2007, and envisage a deceleration to 6.0% in 2008, because the civil war is clearly escalating. In February we raised our... 2008-02-07