By Ravi Ratnasabapathy | Sunday Observer

By Ravi Ratnasabapathy

High taxes and bad policy spike Lanka’s food prices
Sri Lanka has a high cost of living. Data for August 2017 gathered by Numbeo, a crowd-sourced database, indicates that grocery prices are 34.48% higher (and consumer prices 25.22% higher) than in India. Chicken is actually cheaper in Singapore than in Sri Lanka. Whole chicken retails for around Rs.425/-kg, while it is available in supermarkets in Singapore for around S$2...
17 September, 2017
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