Dec 31 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's consumer price index fell 1.7% year-on-year ... Taking advantage of low inflation, Sri Lanka's central bank set a new single policy rate of 8% last month, easing ...

Getty Images Banging dishes together to protest at the food price hikes ... to other countries remained low, while the bill for imports kept growing. Sri Lanka now imports $3bn more than it ...

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis in modern history. Its 22 million strong population is struggling with huge price increases ... a downward spiral of low output, low investment ...