Although the spectre of the Iran War looms large, the fundamental story of the Sri Lankan economy looks to stay strong. In our focus for this month, we take a specific look at the fiscal and external performance of the country and how it ties into forecasted performance in the context of the Iran War.
While the Iran War adds clear uncertainty, and this itself reduces the extent of some of the fiscal and external strength, we think that Sri Lanka’s fiscal and external strength is likely to persist and continue their recent overperformance. We see the strength in the domestic economy acting as a counterweight to insulate itself from most of the costs of disruption and uncertainty that continues to be the case globally. As Sri Lanka’s long-running twin deficits were replaced by fairly consistent twin-surpluses since the crisis, we how costs of a disruption accumulate or absorb are functionally different to the past.
However, the unpredictability of the duration and direction of the conflict raises the uncertainty quotient globally. To account for a precarious geopolitical backdrop, we have widened some of our forecast ranges to reflect this wider probability space.
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