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The Employees' Provident Fund, abbreviated to EPF, is a social security scheme of employees in Sri Lanka under the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. It was established under Act No. 15 of 1958 by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, [3] and as of December 2010, it had Rs 899.6 billion, which is equivalent to 16% of the GDP. [4]
If anything, four years after the pandemic’s onset, office vacancies are growing. In the second quarter of this year, “the office sector set a record vacancy rate at 20.1%, breaking the 20% ...
This is the list of countries by government budget. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The following tables show the governmental budget balance, in millions of US dollars or millions of local currency units (LCU, the most commonly used in the country) and as ...
The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back in 1881 when Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers was created; the army was renamed as the 'Sri Lanka Army' when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. In 2024, the Army had approximately 150,000 personnel. [2] [3]
In response to Wednesday’s report, Toyota ADR shares trading on the NYSE were up less than 1% in midday trade. Toyota, which sold over 11 million vehicles last year globally, is coming off a ...
The 2021 CHIPS and Science Act spawned a wave of new semiconductor activity and put the US on pace, top officials said, to produce 20% of the world's most advanced semiconductor chips by the end ...
Overview. Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector.
Wall Street will get updates on job openings, unemployment, and hiring next week. ... The Dow dropped 45.20 points to 39,118.86. The Nasdaq slid 126.08 points to close at 17,732.60. ___