{"id":295895,"date":"2026-02-22T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295895\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:22:20","slug":"harsha-reminds-imf-chief-of-previous-governments-economic-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/295895\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsha reminds IMF chief of previous government\u2019s economic gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F0fpv\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Twitter\" class=\"heateor_sss_button_twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Harsha%20reminds%20IMF%20chief%20of%20previous%20government%E2%80%99s%20economic%20gains&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F0fpv\" title=\"Twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Whatsapp\" class=\"heateor_sss_whatsapp\" href=\"https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=Harsha%20reminds%20IMF%20chief%20of%20previous%20government%E2%80%99s%20economic%20gains%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newswire.lk%2F0fpv\" title=\"Whatsapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size:32px!important;box-shadow:none;display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newswire.lk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newswire-icon.jpg\" style=\"width:108px; height:20px; margin-top:10px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-224042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Web-template-12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harsha de Silva has called for recognition of the previous government\u2019s economic achievements while commenting on Sri Lanka\u2019s IMF programme.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come after IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, in a recent interview, commended the current Sri Lankan government for its commitment to maintaining macroeconomic stability and continuing reforms under the IMF-supported programme.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, de Silva said that while he supports the IMF programme and appreciates the present government\u2019s focus on stability, as well as Georgieva\u2019s enthusiasm about the country\u2019s prospects, key economic gains were made under the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that inflation had fallen from 70% to 2%, economic growth had rebounded from -7.3% to +5%, and the first-ever national governance diagnostic study had been requested and completed during the prior government.<\/p>\n<p>De Silva stressed that these accomplishments should be acknowledged alongside the ongoing reforms under the present government. (NewsWire)<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While we are supportive of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMFNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@IMFNews<\/a> program in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SriLanka?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SriLanka<\/a> and appreciate the continued focus on macro stability by the PRESENT government and her enthusiasm about the prospects for our country, I wish to point out to MD <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KGeorgieva?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@KGeorgieva<\/a> with all due respect that 1. Inflation came\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EmPEWuOir6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/EmPEWuOir6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harsha de Silva (@HarshadeSilvaMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HarshadeSilvaMP\/status\/2024862947496059295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Harsha de Silva has called for recognition of the previous government\u2019s economic achievements&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-295895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}