{"id":133165,"date":"2021-09-10T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=133165"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T12:05:01","slug":"indias-aid-and-assistance-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-aid-and-assistance-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s aid and assistance to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s <strong>\u2018Neighborhood First\u2019 policy<\/strong> towards Sri Lanka had resonated with Sri Lanka\u2019s \u2018<strong>India First\u2019 foreign and security policy <\/strong>in 2020<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India is Sri Lanka\u2019s third-largest export destination<\/strong>, after the US and UK. More than 60% of Sri Lanka\u2019s exports enjoy the benefits of the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect in March 2000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India is also a major investor in Sri Lanka<\/strong>. Foreign direct investment (FDI) from India amounted to around $1.7 billion over the years from 2005 to 2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concessional financing of about $2 billion<\/strong> has been provided to Sri Lanka through various Indian government-supported Lines of Credit across sectors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s \u2018Neighborhood First\u2019 policy towards Sri Lanka had resonated with Sri Lanka\u2019s \u2018India First\u2019 foreign and security policy in 2020. India is Sri Lanka\u2019s third-largest export destination, after the US and UK. More than 60% of Sri Lanka\u2019s exports enjoy the benefits of the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement, which came into effect in March&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indias-aid-and-assistance-to-sri-lanka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India&#8217;s aid and assistance to Sri Lanka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}