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Op-Ed / Opinion | 13 October 2021
How can Sri Lanka recover from COVID-19? By Promoting Integrated Rural Development - Kenichi Yokoyama
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc around the world.
News from Country Offices | 6 October 2021
ADB Meets Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Director General for South Asia Kenichi Yokoyama yesterday met with Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to express ADB’s support for the country’s development and its coronavirus...
Article | 13 August 2021
ADB Data Show the Impact of COVID-19 on Government Finance in Developing Asia
Many countries in developing Asia have been left with large negative fiscal balances due to the impact of COVID-19, ADB data show. A fiscal imbalance occurs when a government spends more money than it takes in through tax and other revenues.

Brochures and Flyers | 1 September 2021
Lessons Learned from Compliance Reviews at the Asian Development Bank (2004–2020): Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project
This publication focuses on learnings from ADB's compliance review of the Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project under the 2003 Accountability Mechanism Policy.

Data: Sri Lanka ADB and Sri Lanka: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in Sri Lanka

Development indicators for Sri Lanka, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Sri Lanka: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in Sri Lanka

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 26 May 2021
Helping Sri Lanka to go green
Mannar Island is a dry and barren peninsular in Sri Lanka’s arid zone where the climate holds great potential for renewable energy such as wind and solar power.
Project Result / Case Study | 23 March 2021
Solar power from the rooftops in Sri Lanka
Rooftops across Sri Lanka are harnessing solar power that is contributing to the country’s clean energy mix and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Project Result / Case Study | 29 January 2015
Clean Energy Keeps Sri Lanka's Lights on
Sri Lanka has been a success story in bringing reliable electricity supply to its people, reaching a 98 percent electrification rate.