{"id":24420,"date":"2023-04-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=24420"},"modified":"2023-04-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:00:00","slug":"good-sign-sri-lanka-sees-spike-in-remittances-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2023\/04\/07\/good-sign-sri-lanka-sees-spike-in-remittances-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Sign: Sri Lanka Sees Spike in Remittances in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka saw a significant increase in remittances so far this year with over $560 million sent back by migrant workers in March, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the monthly remittances received, the Minister said it marked a 78.5 per cent increase from the inflows recorded in March 2022, reports Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Nanayakkara said remittances by migrant workers have increased remarkably this year.<\/p>\n<p>The South Asian country got $437.5 million in remittances in January, and $407.4 million in February, Central Bank of Sri Lanka data showed.<\/p>\n<p>Official figures for the 2021 and 2022 totals were $5.49 billion and $3.8 billion, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Migrant workers&#8217; remittances are one of the main sources of foreign revenue for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka saw a significant increase in remittances so far this year with over $560 million sent back by migrant workers in March, Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said on Friday. Announcing the monthly remittances received, the Minister said it marked a 78.5 per cent increase from the inflows recorded in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24422,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions\/24422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}