Sri Lanka, May 3 -- Tbilisi: Disbursements and funding of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is very important for Sri Lanka to bridge the finance gap, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe told Daily News Business on the sidelines of the Annual Meeting of ADB's Board of Governors held in Tbilisi, Georgia.

He said the government needs assistance from the Asian Development Bank(ADB) for the SME sector which is severely affected at the moment and the tourism sector. He said SME and tourism were two critical areas apart from infrastructure development and he would seek more funding from ADB towards these areas.

The minister said it would now be much easier for all multilaterals to support Sri Lanka because the country has now been plac...