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Sri Lanka, the Wedding Isle

Every wedding is special for participants and ordinary for the rest of the world.

January 13, 2024 4 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

October 15, 2023 4 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

Sri Lanka's 'big match' fever is healing

There’s nothing ‘mad’ about March

March 16, 2023 5 min read
Sri Lanka Companies Act amendment marks a cultural shift: Panel

Deloitte webinar unpacks the Companies (Amendment) Act No. 12 of 2025

Green cars, red light for Sri Lanka

EV users contribute less to state coffers

The knowhow path to Sri Lankan development

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankans shouldn’t fear foreigners, says Ricardo Hausmann, a professor of economics at th...

Ricardo Hausmann
September 6, 2018 11 min read

Resolving emerging issues in central bank independence; Sri Lanka oration

The following is the full text of 68th anniversary oration of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka by W A Wijewardene a former ...

August 29, 2018 27 min read

Economic reforms in Sri Lanka: Salvation or a recipe for inaction?

ECONOMYNEXT – Economic reforms have become an urgent need for Sri Lanka, with successive governments since indepe...

Kithmina Hewage& Harini Weerasekera
March 30, 2018 5 min read

Sri Lanka – Singapore FTA: What it means for trade and investment flows

ECONOMYNEXT - The freshly-signed Sri Lankan-Singapore FTA (SLSFTA) marks a new milestone in the relations between the tw...

Janaka Wijayasiri and Kithmina Hewage
January 24, 2018 6 min read

Sri Lanka's monetary policy and the way forward

December 2, 2017 32 min read

Sri Lanka can improve on 94 position in Economic Freedom Index

As Sri Lanka celebrates the enormous benefits brought forward by four decades of the open economy, Advocata Institute lo...

October 11, 2017 5 min read

A critical appraisal of Sri Lanka's Vision 2025

ECONOMYNEXT - "Our vision is to make Sri Lanka a rich country by 2025. We will do so by transforming Sri Lanka into the hu...

Rohan Samarajiva
September 12, 2017 6 min read

Sri Lanka's foreign debt reliance

The Sri Lankan economy appears to be enmeshed in a growing debt overhang. The latest figures released in the Central Ban...

Dushni Weerakoon
May 2, 2017 4 min read

Sri Lanka crop insurance held back by farmer ignorance, lack of data

Although some crop insurance programmes are available in Sri Lanka, many farmers are unaware of its benefits or how to u...

November 23, 2016 6 min read

Benefits of a free trade agreement between Sri Lanka and Singapore

Singapore and Sri Lanka officially launched negotiations for a FTA by the respective trade ministers on 18th July 2016; ...

Janaka Wijayasiri and Abhinav Pandey
July 20, 2016 6 min read
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US Dollar 332.3603 330.8514
UK Pound 440.9424 438.3450
Euro 368.4879 371.0168
Yen 2.0805 2.0916
Aus Dollar 227.4342 231.1659
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6-m bill 7.91 8.26
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8-yr bond 10.50 10.48
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Sri Lanka FDI: Proactive investor facilitation needed

ECONOMYNEXT - Investment promotion and facilitation are also considered to be vital pull factors to attract investment, ...

Suwendrani Jayaratne and Raveen Ekanayake
May 29, 2016 6 min read

TPP could lead to trade diversion from Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has the potential to result in trade diversion from Sri Lanka, ...

Janaka Wijayasiri and Nipuni Perera
May 10, 2016 6 min read

Sri Lanka value added tax on healthcare is unconscionable

ECONOMYNEXTY - One is not against the imposition of VAT so long as essential commodities and public utilities are taxed ...

Ravi Abeysuriya
May 9, 2016 6 min read

Sri Lanka’s entrepreneurial activity up in 2015

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s overall macroeconomic conditions deteriorated in 2015. With the government adopting exp...

Indika Hettiarachchi
May 2, 2016 4 min read

Turning Sri Lanka's external trade towards global production networks

Institute of Policy Studies, a Colombo-based think tank, in this op-ed explores the opportunities and challenges faced b...

Kithmina Hewage and Raveen Ekanayake
April 12, 2016 7 min read

How Sri Lanka can capitalize on the Maritime Silk Road

(Pathfinder) The Maritime Silk Road (MSR) and Economic Belt policy initiatives unveiled by President Xi Jinping in 2013 ...

Sarah Hettiaratchi
December 27, 2015 6 min read

Getting Sri Lanka's budgets on track: IMF mission chief

ECONOMYNEXT - Constructing a good budget is like building a good house. The foundation needs to be solid, high-quality m...

Todd Schneider
December 7, 2015 5 min read

Making Sri Lanka's capital Colombo a global financial centre - Pathfinder

Pathfinder Foundation, a Colombo-based think tank has outlined some of the requirements to make Sri Lanka financial cent...

November 19, 2015 7 min read

Science, technology and innovation, key to Sri Lanka's future

ECONOMYNET - Sri Lanka’s avowed goal today is to move from the current lower middle income country to a high inco...

November 18, 2015 10 min read

Why Singapore chose a currency board over a central bank

When the sun never set on the British Empire, the currencies of the British Colonies were issued under the CBS. This pro...

November 6, 2015 10 min read
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