IMF Projections for October 2020 World Economic Outlook and Press Lines

Abstract

This email dated 12 October 2020 from Masahiro Nozaki, Deputy Division Chief and Mission Chief for Sri Lanka at the IMF, to S.R. Attygalle, Secretary to the Treasury, W.D. Lakshman, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, and other Ministry of Finance and CBSL officials, conveys the IMF’s revised projections for the October 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) and provides defensive press lines to use if the media asks about Fund engagement with Sri Lanka.