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Sri Lanka Companies Act amendment marks a cultural shift: Panel

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

October 11, 2025 3 min read

Green cars, red light for Sri Lanka

EV users contribute less to state coffers

October 11, 2025 4 min read

Sri Lanka should mandate 2-pct inflation ceiling to avert next economic crisis

Under a five percent inflation target, Sri Lanka has suffered a series of currency crises and eventual default

October 2, 2025 14 min read

Cultivating circular futures: Youth as agents of change

An article by the FAO Representative for Sri Lanka and the Maldives

September 27, 2025 4 min read
Sri Lanka above target primary budget surplus partly due to central bank 'deflation'

The high nominal interest rate which is a function of monetary instability and destruction of domestic capital

The unlocked potential of ageing and silver economy in Sri Lanka

An Institute of Policy Studies blog analyses challenges and possibilities for Sri Lanka to reap demographic dividends

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

Sri Lanka set to continue 73 years of monetary instability with pseudo inflation targeting law

The inclusion of extensive macro-prudential laws is an admission that money is bad

Bellwether
March 1, 2023 12 min read

Sri Lanka ports, airports made essential services

A strike planned on March 01

February 28, 2023 1 min read

IMF should approve Sri Lanka deal, devise bi-lateral debt-restructuring clause

IMF should stop the promotion of impossible trinity regimes with spurious claims to monetary policy independence

Bellwether
February 28, 2023 12 min read

How Sri Lanka rejected Singapore monetary advice and politicians, people paid the price

Call from Goh, Shenoy to provide sound money discarded in favour of depreciation, flexible regimes

Bellwether
February 9, 2023 14 min read
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Sri Lanka central bank caught between peg and hard place

Care should be taken to make sure that excess liquidity does not re-emerge from fictitious capital

Bellwether
January 19, 2023 8 min read

Sri Lanka's economic crisis and COVID-19 pandemic reverses progress in SDGs - IPS

"Financing SDGs has become the biggest challenge for Sri Lanka"

January 13, 2023 8 min read

Call to liberalize Sri Lanka shipping for export competitive economy

Singapore has 5,000 shipping agencies and have 140 shipping lines headquarters

January 4, 2023 4 min read

Sri Lanka’s sorry record on protecting Free Expression

The aragalaya has a lit a lamp for free expression

Arjuna Ranawana
December 30, 2022 10 min read
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