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Last updated: 31 March, 2008 - Published 14:26 GMT
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Inflation hits 'historic' levels
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The consumer prices index in Sri Lanka has dramatically increased to record levels, figures from the Central Bank show.

As the inflation measured by a new index hit 23.8 on Monday, the older index has his a record 28.1.

This is the highest level the prices index has hit in Sri Lanka since 1950, Lanka Business Online (LBO) journalist Asantha Sirimanna told BBC Sandeshaya.

Imports and the rise in oil prices were not the main reasons for the rise in Sri Lanka's inflation, the LBO said quoting from an IMF study released on Saturday.

"Only one tenth of the Sri Lanka's inflation over the last two years can be explained by imports. Oil only explained six percent of the increase in the index," the website said quoting from the study.

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