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Sri Lanka in talks for $100 mn emergency funding from China-backed bank

Sri Lanka has requested foreign-exchange liquidity support for state banks from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

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People leave after being informed by the manager of a fuel station in Colombo that they are out of kerosene. Sri Lankan fuel pumps may go dry by the end of this month with the $500 million Indian fuel credit line purchase exhausting fast. Photo: Reut

Reuters Colombo
The China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is considering granting $100 million in emergency support to Sri Lanka, the country's finance ministry said on Sunday.

Sri Lanka has requested foreign-exchange liquidity support for state banks from the lender, it said in a statement. Hit hard by the pandemic, rising oil prices and populist tax cuts by the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the South Asian island's economy is in crisis, with usable foreign reserves down to $50 million, Finance Minister Ali Sabry said last week.

Shortages of imported food, fuel and medicines have brought thousands onto the streets in over a

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