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Opinion

Regional integration to empower Sri Lankan women

Providing equal employment opportunities for men and women can enable South Asia to enhance incomes by 25%.

April 4, 2024 6 min read

In the political arena, South Asian women face similar hurdles

In South Asia, women face similar hurdles when breaking into the male-dominated political arena

March 29, 2024 5 min read

Sri Lanka should not give standing facilities as lender of first resort: Bellwether

Sri Lanka should impose counterparty limits to liquidity tools and charge a premium

March 25, 2024 12 min read

Regional cooperation and PPPs key to developing educational technology in Sri Lanka: IPS

Expanding Ed-tech through partnerships, collaborations, and AI can improve quality education

March 7, 2024 6 min read
Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings: A Preventable Tragedy

If it was, preventable, then why was it not?

Sri Lanka could get hit from a disorderly US tumble: Bellwether

Every time the US engaged in bad policy Sri Lanka was hit

Sri Lanka VAT increase is better than killing economic freedoms with income tax

Tax slabs should keep pace with inflation, dependent allowances should be considered

Bellwether
November 9, 2023 7 min read

Sri Lanka's rupee depreciation and economic crises; the deficit lie

Deficits do not rise much in the year that a currency crisis is triggered, but in the stabilization year

Bellwether
October 23, 2023 12 min read

Sri Lanka's new central bank act with John Law clause reverts to classical Mercantilism

Targeting GDP with easy money dates back to Scottish Mercantilist John Law and fully flexible policy to James Steuart.

Bellwether
October 17, 2023 13 min read

Sri Lanka police in dire straits as three-times lucky IGP gets extension: focus

Our police correspondent examines the crisis in the department

Police Correspondent
October 15, 2023 4 min read
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Sri Lanka should be cautious in expanding socialist leaning taxes

High direct tax rates, capital consumption taxes, are not a substitute for monetary stability

Bellwether
October 9, 2023 13 min read

Sri Lanka's trade and cultural links across the Indian Ocean from antiquity

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October 8, 2023 7 min read

J.P. Narayan: Socialist Gandhism

Marxist Critic of Gandhi Becomes an Adherent, But Finally Finds Transformational State Power Indispensable

September 11, 2023 34 min read

Sri Lanka should be careful in over-relying on GFN at the expense of stability: Bellwether

Countries where inflationists cannot engage in macro-economic policy with money printing have low debt

Bellwether
September 11, 2023 7 min read

Sri Lanka draws up law on online "untruths", religious hurts

Law will arbitrate on the truth or otherwise of various statements published online

September 5, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka interest rates are dictated by the IMF reserve target, not inflation

It is a shame that country with a 20-pct savings rate cannot maintain reserves and has to depreciate the currency

Bellwether
August 14, 2023 15 min read
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Sri Lanka tables DDR tax hike amendment in parliament

The amendment was published on the government gazette on July 17

August 9, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka legislators should deny high inflation goal independence to the central bank

If parliament rubber stamps a 4-6-pct inflation target, a second default is more certain

Bellwether
July 31, 2023 12 min read

Sri Lanka central bank will be unaccountable as long it can punish victims

The new central bank goal and objective are a personification of the impossible trinity of monetary policy objectives

Bellwether
July 12, 2023 10 min read

Sri Lanka can cut rates now, keeping them down as credit picks up will hit rupee: Bellwether

Reserves can be collected by impoverishing the poor, or by taking in their savings

Bellwether
July 5, 2023 7 min read
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Why is Sri Lanka's rupee appreciating?

Sri Lanka rupee appreciation explained

Bellwether
June 2, 2023 15 min read
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Gandhi: The social logic of Ahimsa

From his axiom of ahimsa (non-violence), Gandhi derives two promising themes...

Mark Hager
May 18, 2023 28 min read
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Sri Lanka's collapse in new sovereign default wave is not really China's fault: Bellwether

Mass sovereign default episode in the 1980s also followed a decade of bad money from the Fed

Bellwether
May 2, 2023 15 min read
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Sri Lanka budget support IMF loans show worrying policy confusion : Bellwether

Converted budget support loans and conflicting PCs can lead to new external instability, discredit and derail reforms

Bellwether
April 18, 2023 13 min read
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Sri Lanka's 'big match' fever is healing

There’s nothing ‘mad’ about March

Krishantha Prasad Cooray
March 16, 2023 5 min read
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Sri Lanka tables controversial draft monetary law with multiple anchors

The new law appears to have brought back policy conflicts dropped in a previous amendment

Bellwether
March 9, 2023 12 min read