Sri Lanka’s Central Bank is twisting statistics to project an unrealistic picture of economic development, an economist and parliamentarian of the main opposition said this week.
These falsehoods are contributing to the "deteriorating credibility of the now completely politicized institution," Harsha de Silva of the United National Party (UNP) told The Island newspaper.
See also our earlier post:
Dodgy numbers (Nov 2010)
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