{"id":18499,"date":"2026-11-13T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=18499"},"modified":"2026-11-13T12:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T07:29:03","slug":"sri-lanka-has-improved-global-standing-across-multiple-international-rankings-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/?p=18499","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka has improved global standing across multiple international rankings \u2013 President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says Sri Lanka has recorded improvements in its international standing across several key sectors, with progress reflected in a range of global rankings and assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering the 2027 Budget speech in Parliament, the President said these improvements had been achieved despite the numerous economic and other challenges faced by the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He highlighted the improvement in Sri Lanka&#8217;s sovereign credit ratings by Fitch Ratings, as well as the country&#8217;s progress in Transparency International&#8217;s corruption-related rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President also pointed to improvements in Sri Lanka&#8217;s position in the Global Peace Index, describing the developments as evidence of progress across several areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further noted that Sri Lanka was among the fastest-improving economies in terms of economic development and had gained recognition as one of the world&#8217;s leading travel destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Dissanayake also highlighted Sri Lanka&#8217;s improved economic standing, noting its position as an upper-middle-income economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said these developments reflected the progress achieved by the country despite the challenges encountered during the Government&#8217;s efforts to stabilise and transform the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ada Derana Biz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake says Sri Lanka has recorded improvements in its international standing across several key sectors, with progress reflected in a range of global rankings and assessments. Delivering the 2027 Budget speech in Parliament, the President said these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18501,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions\/18501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enterprisenews.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}