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Sri Lanka has to hike rates, ensure monetary fiscal co-ordination to help rupee: Bellwether

Monetary fiscal co-ordination comes from an International Monetary Fund

March 10, 2022 4 min read

Sri Lanka use of reserves for imports is a deadly false choice: Bellwether

Sterilized currency defence, without an accompanying rise in rates, spells disaster

January 31, 2022 17 min read

Sri Lanka has to hike rates, before a float to end forex crisis: Bellwether

At the current policy rates and sterilization of interventions, forex problems will not get better

January 18, 2022 16 min read

Sri Lanka should prepare to float, and promote parallel dollarization: Bellwether

The proposal to import cars with dollar earnings and pay taxes in dollars is absolutely correct

December 21, 2021 16 min read
Why is Sri Lanka's rupee appreciating?

Sri Lanka rupee appreciation explained

Gandhi: The social logic of Ahimsa

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

As Coronavirus tears Sri Lanka's apparel sector apart, an insider calls for help

No event in modern history has caused implications as severe as that of the Covid-19 outbreak, which is in danger of tea...

April 16, 2020 3 min read

Coronavirus crisis in Sri Lanka, the time to quit smoking: IPS

This provides grants to our poorest and most vulnerable members to cover their IMF debt obligations for an initial phase...

April 14, 2020 5 min read

‘A Brewing Storm’: Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Sri Lanka

Over a quarter of the world’s population is currently under movement restrictions. For the first time in recent human ...

Kithmina Hewage- Institute of Policy Studies
March 30, 2020 7 min read

A COVID-19 Recession and Debt Shock in Asia and Sri Lanka: scenario analysis

This scenario analysis is by Ganeshan Wignaraja is the Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of Intern...

March 30, 2020 4 min read

After Corona and Curfew: A soft landing, ‘herd immunity’ and an Easter memorial

Them belly full but we hungry A hungry mob is an angry mob A rain a-fall but the dirt, it tough A pot a-cook bu...

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
March 28, 2020 10 min read

COVID19: A highly restrictive curfew may be counterproductive

A lockdown may certainly be warranted,  yet a highly restrictive and prolonged curfew may prove to be counterproductive...

Aneetha Warusavitarana - Advocata
March 27, 2020 4 min read

The cost of being a Sri Lankan woman: Menstrual hygiene is very expensive

Sri Lanka's women’s economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment and political empowerment are major...

March 10, 2020 7 min read
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Women in Night and Shift Work in Sri Lanka: Policies to Facilitate More Participation

Labour markets are undergoing rapid changes, while technological advances, income growth, and urbanisation are transfor...

March 5, 2020 6 min read

Mahinda raises controversial Anti-Conversion Bill issue

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is driving the governing party’s Parliamentary Election campaign and at the outset ha...

Arjuna Ranawana
March 3, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka battered by unceasing 'regime uncertainty: Bellwether

When the government changes ground rules and conditions or the operating regime suddenly, like in Sri Lanka, it is very ...

February 26, 2020 11 min read
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UK Pound 386.9523 387.2371
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The Hope That President Rajapaksa Will Deliver

Despite the president’s statesmanlike words, the government is continuing to fall short in its efforts to realize the ...

Dr. Jehan Perera
February 25, 2020 6 min read

Business Impact on Sri Lanka from COVID-19

The outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having its toll on the global economy with many economists now expec...

Economic Intelligence Unit of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
February 21, 2020 3 min read

Deal with the families of missing with more compassion

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s recent assertion that those reported missing from the war are actually dead and the gov...

Jehan Perera - Executive Director National Peace Council
February 5, 2020 6 min read

Religio-cultural fundamentalism, liberty and social progress in Sri Lanka and the world

In this H.M.A. Herath Annual Memorial Oration delivered by W A Wijewardene, an economist, teacher and thinker takes the ...

February 2, 2020 33 min read

Can the UNP get its act together?

Badly wounded at the last Presidential Elections, a deeply divided United National Party will try this week to reach a â...

Arjuna Ranawana
January 26, 2020 6 min read
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Ranjangate: The next stage begins

Why we all should be afraid of Ranjan Rmanayake has done

Arjuna Ranawana
January 18, 2020 5 min read

Ranjagate: The perils of undermining the Rule of Law

The Ranjan Ramanayake tapes, particularly his conversations with Policemen and Judges are undermining the credibility of...

Jehan Perera - Excecutive Director National Peace Council of Sri Lanka
January 14, 2020 7 min read

The language of the national anthem

Eranda Ginige
January 6, 2020 17 min read

Ultra-Nationalist Propaganda And Running Effective Governance

The government has faced severe backlash after the Finance Ministry announced the first Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ...

Rasika Jayakody
January 1, 2020 4 min read

It's going to be a bumpy 2020

As the New Year dawns it is our duty as watchdogs to look ahead and try to predict what lies ahead for us citizens of th...

Arjuna Ranawana
December 31, 2019 6 min read
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