Eran Wickramaratne, Sri Lanka's state minister of finance, said 2019 growth 'would be around 3%' because of the deadly bombings on Easter Sunday.
The IMF's 2019 growth forecast for Sri Lanka is 3.5%, while that of the ADB is 3.6%. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, the governor of Sri Lanka's central bank, told CNBC last month thatBut Wickramaratne said growth "would be around 3%" this year.
But foreign investors are coming back into Sri Lanka, according to Ray Abeywardena, chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange. He said on Tuesday the exchange saw inflows of around 3.6 billion
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