Investment Rate

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka announced a decision to maintain its Standing Deposit Facility Rate and Standing Lending Facility Rate at the current level of 15.50 per cent and 16.50 per cent

Savings and investment rates in the financial year (FY) 2021-22 were 30.2 per cent and 29.6 per cent, respectively

The difference between the real and nominal GFCF rates was five percentage points. The difference stood at over 5% in the previous two quarters of the current financial year

VC investment in India is expected to remain soft in the first quarter of 2023, before starting to pick up in Q2 in part due to India's strong growth and consumption expectations

Deficits resulting from spending on socio-economic programmes constrain ratings for the state: Agency

Raising the growth rate to 9 per cent in FY21 would require uplifting the investment rate to close to 38 per cent of GDP as against 31.3 per cent in FY19, it said

A report by CARE Ratings shows investments would be fuelled by government spends on infrastructure

The report goes on to say that economic output and growth has not witnessed the expected pick up in the last four years