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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Sri Lanka: Financial System Stability Assessment: Update, including Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the following topics: Banking Supervision and Payment Systems
International Monetary Fund
This paper presents an update to the Financial System Stability Assessment on Sri Lanka. The paper discusses that despite a challenging macroeconomic environment characterized by a high fiscal deficit, inflationary pressures, and a widening current account, near-term risks to the financial system appear manageable. Financial soundness indicators have improved; nonetheless, stress tests suggest that banks remain relatively less resilient to interest rate and liquidity shocks. Moreover, the system faces challenges over the medium term from continued rapid credit growth, rising interest rates, and rigidities in interbank markets.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; bank; central bank; securities; CBSL; credit risk; bank exposure; interest rate; RTGS security objective; exchange-earning corporate; bank borrowing; exposure to the government; Commercial banks; Insurance companies; Insurance; Credit; Asia and Pacific
Cover IMF Working Papers
What Should Macroeconomists Know about Health Care Policy?
Mr. Peter S. Heller
This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of poverty reduction. The primer highlights the appropriate roles for the state and market in health care financing and provision. It also suggests situations in which macroeconomists should engage health sector specialists in policy formulation exercises. Finally, it reviews the different health policy issues that confront countries at alternative stages of economic development and the range of appropriate policy options.
Keywords:
WP; health system; expenditure inflation; health sector; health status; health expenditure; health practitioner