{"id":48084,"date":"2022-09-01T19:33:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/imf-offers-sri-lanka-provisional-29bn-loan-tackle-debt-crisis"},"modified":"2022-09-01T19:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T10:33:12","slug":"imf-offers-sri-lanka-provisional-2-9bn-loan-to-tackle-debt-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48084","title":{"rendered":"IMF offers Sri Lanka provisional $2.9bn loan to tackle debt crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding still needs to be approved but could offer breathing space amid country\u2019s economic turmoil<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund has tentatively offered Sri Lanka a $2.9bn (\u00a32.5bn) loan to help the country recover from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/19\/sri-lanka-defaults-on-debts-for-first-time\">the worst economic crisis<\/a> since it gained independence from Britain in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is meant to provide some breathing space for Sri Lanka, which is scrambling to restructure nearly $30bn in debt to creditors including China, India and a string of international banks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/imf-offers-sri-lanka-provisional-29bn-loan-tackle-debt-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding still needs to be approved but could offer breathing space amid country\u2019s economic turmoilThe International Monetary Fund has tentatively offered Sri Lanka a $2.9bn (\u00a32.5bn) loan to help the country recover from the worst economic crisis since &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[412,6,50,437,1333,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belt-and-road-initiative","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-international-monetary-fund-imf","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48085,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48084\/revisions\/48085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}