Sri Lanka, April 25 -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Sri Lanka must focus on diversifying its export markets and creating an investment-friendly environment to maintain stability and growth, even as recent tariff changes pose challenges to economic forecasting.

Speaking at the 2025 Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF Thursday (24), Krishna Srinivasan, Director of the Asia and Pacific Department, highlighted the complexity added by recent developments in Sri Lanka.

"You know, talking about uncertainty, which the MD mentioned this morning, as you just talked about, the team was in Sri Lanka not too long ago, and they were in the midst of having discussions with the authorities when these tariffs were announced...