ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s private credit hit a new record of 226.8 billion rupees in August 2025, up from 201.5 billion rupees a month earlier, taking the total so in 2025 to 1,128 billion rupees, while credit to government fell, official data shows. Sri Lanka’s central bank has provided monetary stability as it missed an inflation target, allowing people – including many who were starving and forced to skip meals after macroeconomists steeply depreciated the currency in 2022 destroying real wages – to slowly to pick up their lives, buying goods and allowing demand to recover and giving confidence for…
Sri Lanka private credit hits Rs226.8bn in Aug 2025 taking total to Rs1.1trn
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