{"id":15130,"date":"2021-08-19T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15130"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T07:26:29","slug":"wheres-official-foreign-exchange-reserves-miracle-cabraal-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=15130","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s &#8216;official foreign exchange reserves miracle&#8217; Cabraal promised?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest Central Bank statement reveals that Sri Lanka&#8217;s official foreign exchange reserves stand at US$ 2.8 billion, adequate for 1.8 months&#8217; worth of imports.<br \/>State Minister of Finance Ajith Nivard Cabraal said in response to a warning by economic analysts after paying off a US$ billion loan on July 27 that measures were being taken to raise the official reserves to US$ 7.5 billion. Three weeks after the Minister&#8217;s announcement, the Central Bank has officially stated that the official reserves are US$ 2.8 billion.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-15130' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=15130&amp;comments=1&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='1 Comment'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>1<\/span> Comment<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-15130' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-15130' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-15130' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-15130'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-15130' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-15130 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Central Bank statement reveals that Sri Lanka&#8217;s official foreign exchange reserves stand at US$ 2.8 billion, adequate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}