{"id":6136,"date":"2022-11-10T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2022-11-10T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:09:53","slug":"president-wickremesinghe-meets-wb-group-president-david-malpass-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"President Wickremesinghe meets WB Group President David Malpass in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2812.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6137\" width=\"839\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2812.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/smn-news-2812-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>World Bank Group President David Malpass met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday (08) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on the sidelines of the COP 27 climate change conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malpass and president discussed the challenging macroeconomic and social situation in Sri Lanka and the urgent need to stabilize the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>both of them discussed ways to improve the efficiency of public expenditures and necessary reforms to the state-owned enterprises, particularly given the large size of the public sector in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Malpass affirmed the World Bank Group\u2019s (WBG) support to the Sri Lankan people in rebuilding their economy and creating a foundation for sustainable private sector-led growth through IDA concessional financing, technical assistance, and policy advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also they have discussed opportunities for improving agriculture production and value chains, including through effective programs supporting fertilizer use, as well as Sri Lanka\u2019s large potential in the service sector, including tourism and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank Group President David Malpass met with President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday (08) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on the sidelines of the COP 27 climate change conference. Malpass and president discussed the challenging macroeconomic and social situation in Sri Lanka and the urgent need to stabilize the economy. both of them discussed ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[1202,394,848,18,1201],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-cop-27","tag-president-of-sri-lanka","tag-ranil-wikkramasinghe","tag-smn24","tag-world-bank-group-president-david-malpass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6139,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}