MUMBAI - Sri Lanka is targeting 2026 as the year to return to its pre-crisis growth levels, state finance minister Shehan Semasinghe said in an interview at the Reuters NEXT conference on Wednesday.

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Sri Lanka's financial turmoil, its worst since independence from Britain in 1948, stems from economic mismanagement as well as the COVID-19 pandemic that wiped out the island's key tourism industry, analysts say.