
World Bank lifts Sri Lanka outlook, says recovery uneven
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The World Bank yesterday upgraded its outlook for Sri Lanka, raising its 2026 growth forecast to 4.4% from 3.6% in April, but warned that the recovery remains uneven, with poverty above pre-crisis levels and real wages still about 12% below 2019.

From brink of extinction to hope
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More than two decades ago, I wrote about the importance of conserving Sri Lanka’s remarkable biological diversity and the need to protect not only individual species but also their habitats, genetic variation and ecological relationships. The urgency was already apparent then. Today, it has increased considerably.