{"id":477,"date":"2016-12-16T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=477"},"modified":"2016-12-16T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:51:16","slug":"world-bank-pledges-usd-1340-mn-aid-to-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/world-bank-pledges-usd-1340-mn-aid-to-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank pledges USD 1,340 mn aid to Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has pledged assistance worth US $ 1340 million to Sri Lanka which will be on a dual format, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake announced today.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said the total sum pledged by the World Bank will comprise US 440 million as development assistance at the rate which could be as low as 2 per cent while it had also received a further US $ 900 million with a higher interest rate in the form of normal assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSri Lanka lost development assistance for which the interest rate is much less as its per capita income reached $ 4000 in the recent past. However as a result of negotiations which Sri Lanka had with the donor Sri Lanka getting a mixed assistance,&#8221; the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe World Bank must have surely taken up by the financial discipline which Sri Lanka has shown in the recent past as well,&#8221; he added assuring that the assistance would be put to good use.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Daily Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank has pledged assistance worth US $ 1340 million to Sri Lanka&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}