{"id":53637,"date":"2023-03-21T10:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/imf-approves-sri-lankas-29bn-bailout"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T01:58:11","slug":"imf-approves-sri-lankas-2-9bn-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53637","title":{"rendered":"IMF approves Sri Lanka&#8217;s $2.9bn bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President vows to get economy back on track through \u2018prudent fiscal management and ambitious reform agenda\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund has approved Sri Lanka\u2019s request for a $2.9bn bailout, raising hopes for an easing of its economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF\u2019s board confirmed it had signed off on the loan, clearing the way for the release of funds and kicking off a four-year programme designed to shore up the economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/imf-approves-sri-lankas-29bn-bailout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President vows to get economy back on track through \u2018prudent fiscal management and ambitious reform agenda\u2019The International Monetary Fund has approved Sri Lanka\u2019s request for a $2.9bn bailout, raising hopes for an easing of its economic crisis.The IMF&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[587,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53637","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53637\/revisions\/53638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}