இலங்கையில் மிகுந்த அச்சுறுத்தல் நிலவும் நிதிக் கட்டமைப்பு உள்ளதாக ஃபிட்ச் (Fitch Ratings) நிறுவனம் குறிப்பிட்டது.

இலங்கையில், மிகுந்த அச்சுறுத்தல் நிலவும் நிதிக் கட்டமைப்பு உள்ளதாக ஃபிட்ச் றேட்டிங்ஸ் (Fitch Ratings)நிறுவனம் குறிப்பிட்டது.

போரின் காரணமாக குறைந்திருந்த வெளிநாட்டு நேரடி முதலீடுகள் இதுவரை முன்னைய வேகத்திற்கு திரும்பவில்லையென Fitch நிறுவனம் வெளியிட்ட அறிக்கை ஒன்று குறிப்பிடுகிறது.

நீண்ட கால அடிப்படையில் பொருளாதார வளர்ச்சியை ஊக்குவிக்கும் வகையிலான அமைப்பு ரீதியிலான சீர் திருத்தங்களும், நிதி நிலையைப் பலப்படுத்தும் செயற்பாடுகளும், இலங்கையின் கடன்பெறு தகமையை மேலும் அதிகரிக்குமென குவைஉh நிறுவனம் குறிப்பிடுகிறது.

இலங்கை ரூபாவின் பெறுமதி மூன்று சதவீதத்தால் குறைக்கப்பட்டதையும் அந்த நிறுவனம் கருத்த்தில் எடுத்துள்ளது.

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Sri Lanka among highest-risk financial systems: Fitch

Dec 23, 2011 (LBO) - Rapid credit growth and rising asset prices has put Sri Lanka among the highest-risk financial systems, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings which has cut its growth forecast for emerging Asia.

The report on the Asia-Pacific sovereign credit outlook said there were growing concerns about bank credit in the region. "While many advanced economies “de-lever”, the speed of credit growth and rising asset prices has led to Asia-Pacific harbouring four of the world’s nine highest-risk financial systems," Fitch said.

"Hong Kong and China were joined by Indonesia and Sri Lanka in the December 2011 assessment, although Vietnam dropped out as credit growth eased."

Fitch upgraded Sri Lanka’s long-term foreign-currency rating to ‘BB−’ with a stable outlook from ‘B+’/Positive in July 2011.

The move reflected the "stabilisation and recovery of the economy under the authorities’ IMF programme and efforts to consolidate the chronic budget deficit," Fitch said.

"However, foreign direct investment has been surprisingly slow to recover after the end of the country’s long civil war in 2009, and the authorities devalued the Sri Lankan rupee by three percent in November 2011.

"Structural reforms to support longer-term growth prospects combined with further fiscal consolidation efforts would increase Sri Lanka’s chances of moving further up the ratings scale."

Fitch said that strong and improving external balance sheets buffer most of emerging Asia from ongoing volatility in global investor risk appetite. "India and Sri Lanka are the only Fitch-rated emerging Asian countries to run deficits on “basic balance” (the current account plus net foreign direct investment)," the report said.

Asian economies were not immune from the financial crises in the industrialised countries. Fitch has cut its forecast for emerging Asia’s 2012 growth to 6.8 percent for 2012, from 7.4 percent estimated in June 2011.

"This reflects both the deterioration in the outlook for the world economy and the lagged impact of policy tightening in some countries, including the region’s two giants, China and India," the report said. "Both China and India face a combination of slowing activity and stubbornly high inflation, underlining the risks that can arise from allowing inflation to rise above desired ranges."

"This structural weakness may help explain why the Indian rupee fell to a record low against the US dollar in December 2011, while Sri Lanka devalued its currency in November."

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=1239035886

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Edited December 24, 201114 yr by மல்லையூரான்

முழு உலகுமுமே, சீனா உட்பட ஒரு பொருளாதார நெருக்கடிக்கு முகம் கொடுத்துள்ள நிலைமையில் , 2012 ஆம் ஆண்டு சவாலாக இருக்கும். அதில் சிங்களம் மட்டும் தப்ப முடியும் என்றில்லை.

தொடர்ந்தும் சிங்களத்தை பொருளாதார ரீதியில் புறக்கணிப்போம். அதன் மூலம் எமது தாயக உறவுகளின் அரசியல் விடுதலைக்கு வலிமை சேர்ப்போம்.

Financial weaknesses key rating constraint for Sri Lanka, says Moody's

Sovereign ratings agency Moody's says Sri Lanka's financial weaknesses are a key rating constraint but reforms and economic growth could mitigate these risks. Last month, Fitch ratings placed Sri Lanka among the highest-risk financial systems in the Asia Pacific Regions which also highlighted structural issues in the external sector front. Central Bank Govenor Ajith Nivard Cabraal had dismissed the Fitch report as being confusing as the economy registered a growth rate of 8.3 percent in 2011 when most developing economies continued to slump.

Moody's Investors Service noted that the government of Sri Lanka's B1 rating and positive outlook for its foreign-currency obligations is based on an assessment of the country's low economic and government financial strengths, moderate institutional strengths and moderate susceptibility to event risks, the ratings agency said in a statement yesterday (Jan. 03).

"The country's economic scale and diversity, and per capita income level, are in line with most single B-rated sovereigns. However, a peace dividend in the form of a pick-up in economic growth, if sustained, should translate into greater credit strength. The pace and permanence of an improvement in credit fundamentals will also be determined by the success of ongoing structural and fiscal reforms.

"The methodological assessment was contained in Moody's latest annual report on Sri Lanka which sees financial weaknesses as a key rating constraint. This arises from the legacy of large budget deficits from the civil war years which ended in 2009, and which have contributed to a large government debt overhang.

http://my.news.yahoo.com/financial-weaknesses-key-rating-constraint-sri-lanka-says-053002300.html