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A fisherman weighs a fish near election campaign posters pasted on a wall in Vavuniya. The entire island is bracing for presidential and parliamentary elections during the first quarter of the year. Commercial bank dealers said they were uncertain as to how to answer queries from investors with regard to exchange rate and interest rate movements. But the end of the war last May has heralded an era of rapid socio-economic growth, the Central Bank said earlier this week. - AP |