Over the past five years, small businesses have been battered and bruised, many have closed down with workers thrown onto the street, with a bleak future. These are made up of 5,639 micro enterprises, 4,636 small businesses, 2,986 medium-scale enterprises and 437 large-scale enterprises. This damage is equivalent to about 4 per cent of Sri Lanka’s GDP, the multilateral organisation said in a statement. In a separate, brief assessment, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said 374,000 workers were affected by the devastating Cyclone Ditwah. The affected workers were from the area directly impacted by floods and landslides.
