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  2. Sri Lankan rupee - Wikipedia

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    The Sri Lankan Rupee ( Sinhala: රුපියල්, Tamil: ரூபாய்; symbol: රු (plural) in English, රු in Sinhala, ௹ in Tamil; ISO code: LKR) is the currency of Sri Lanka. It is subdivided into 100 cents ( Sinhala: සත, Tamil: சதம் ), but cents are rarely seen in circulation due to its low value. It is issued ...

  3. Economy of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    USD / Sri Lankan Rupee exchange rate In early March 2022 the Sri Lankan Rupee began losing value quickly. As of the early 2020s, the debt-laden country is undergoing an economic crisis where locals are experiencing months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity. Inflation has peaked to 57% according to official data. [70]

  4. Sri Lankan economic crisis (2019–present) - Wikipedia

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    The Central Bank of Sri Lanka under Cabraal attempted to maintain the Sri Lankan rupee pegged while continuing heavy money printing and strict exchange controls thus pushing down the market value of the rupee. Thus, by February 2022 while the government attempted to keep the currency pegged at Rs. 200/- to the United States dollar, the ...

  5. Rupee - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian rupiah: East Timor. Rupee is the common name for the currencies of India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, and Sri Lanka, and of former currencies of Afghanistan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (as the Gulf rupee ), British East Africa, Burma, German East Africa (as Rupie/Rupien ), and Tibet.

  6. Lakh - Wikipedia

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    A lakh ( / læk, lɑːk /; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac[ 1]) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation : 10 5 ). [ 1][ 2] In the Indian 2, 2, 3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. [ 3]

  7. Sri Lanka sovereign default - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka has seen external instability from around late 2014 suffering two currency crises and low growth with the rupee falling from 131 to 182 to the US dollar by 2018. Foreign debt rose from 30% of gross domestic product in 2014 to 41.3% in 2019 while total debt went up from 76% to 86% as growth slowed amid [7] Sovereign bond borrowings ...

  8. List of countries by exchange rate regime - Wikipedia

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    e. This is a list of countries by their exchange rate regime. [1] De facto exchange-rate arrangements in 2022 as classified by the International Monetary Fund. Floating ( floating and free floating) Soft pegs ( conventional peg, stabilized arrangement, crawling peg, crawl-like arrangement, pegged exchange rate within horizontal bands) Hard pegs ...

  9. History of the rupee - Wikipedia

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    The dollar-pound exchange rate then was $4.03 to the pound, which in effect gave a rupee-dollar rate in 1947 of around ₹3.30. [24] [25] The pound was devalued in 1949, changing its parity from 4.03 to 2.80. India was then a part of the sterling area, and the rupee was devalued on the same day by the same percentage so that the new dollar ...