The 6.5 percent growth for 2015 published following a post program monitoring mission has been kept unchanged.
Sri Lanka has ended a 2.5 billion US dollar IMF bailout program it entered in 2009, following a balance of payments trouble, but entered another one in 2011/2012 by trying to subsidize energy with state bank credit at a time when overall credit growth was already high.
Sri Lanka's central bank has forecasted a gross domestic product of 7.8 percent for 2014 helped by a recovery in exports.
Sri Lanka reported gross domestic product growth of 7.3 percent for 2013 up from 6.3 percent in 2012 as the country recovers from a balance of payments crisis.
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