Sri Lanka, Sept. 8 -- Deputy Minister of Economic Development Dr. Anil Jayantha said that the government has been able to lay a stable foundation for overcoming the economic crisis that has gripped the entire country in the past nine months.

He noted that when this government came to power, the primary objective was to establish economic stability, financial market stability and commodity price stability with the aim of stabilizing the country.

"The government has been able to achieve significant stability in these sectors as well as in other sectors in the past nine months targeting to achieve long lasting stability," the Minister said. When the government took power, state tax revenue was less than ten percent as a percentage of the G...