The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Financial Times

Commercial banks must cut interest rates, increase lending and contain the US dollar at Rs 115, President Mahinda Rajapaksa told bankers and government officials at a meeting on Tuesday.

New book by Central Bank Deputy Governor based on The Sunday Times FT series

Does economics, which is generally believed to be as ‘hard to comprehend’ help to explain the mysteries of how people and society operate?

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