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Tag: cost of living

Sri Lanka plans to liberalize markets to increase competition, enhance living standards
BUSINESS

Sri Lanka plans to liberalize markets to increase competition, enhance living standards

Sri Lanka’s budget for next year plans to liberalize the trade removing tariffs immediately and modernizing archaic legislation to remove…

byFaraz Shauketaly10/12/2017
Price control on several essential food items considered to arrest rising cost of living
LOCAL

Price control on several essential food items considered to arrest rising cost of living

Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Mahinda Amaraweera says the Committee on Cost of Living has decided to impose…

byFaraz Shauketaly25/11/201726/11/2017
2018 Budget to be presented in Parliament
BUSINESS

2018 Budget to be presented in Parliament

The third Budget of the consensual government led by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be presented…

byAdmin09/11/201709/11/2017

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