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Confusion over whether Sri Lanka's IMF deal will be presented to parliament

"The cabinet will be briefed very soon once he received all the details."

September 22, 2022 2 min read

Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears

Fear of a DDR/IFR event drive rates even higher

September 19, 2022 13 min read

Sri Lanka is wrong to scapegoat expat workers over Undiyal: Bellwether

Indian billion dollar credit line also works Undiyal fashion

July 25, 2022 6 min read

Sri Lanka economic recovery, a common minimum program

A series of detailed proposals

July 1, 2022 15 min read
Three years at a thankless task in Sri Lanka

At this treacherous hour, three years ago to this very day, two sons of Lanka answered her call

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

Sri Lanka's state aristocracy by popular vote; 'King' unware of tax by 'Royal Prerogative'

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's taxation by 'Royal Prerogative' progressively built by the elected ruling class and bureaucrat...

Bellwether
May 16, 2016 7 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

Inside an IMF deal; Sri Lanka needs monetary reform not just fiscal plaster: Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - With interest rates already higher which will go some way to correct monetary excesses of central bank and...

April 4, 2016 10 min read

Sri Lanka should not tax capital gains retrospectively: Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has announced plans to charge capital gains tax and the proposal to tax shares has created uncer...

Bellwether
March 16, 2016 6 min read

Sri Lanka's economy in 2016; limping to stability from a runaway budget: Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka is fearing more economic instability in 2016 with little being done to fix budget that went off ...

Bellwether
March 6, 2016 11 min read

Sri Lanka police in unique move to tackle rising road fatalities

ECONOMYNEXT - After failing to implement basic lane discipline, Sri Lanka's police has come up with a unique way to redu...

Namal Suvendra
March 5, 2016 3 min read
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Sri Lanka's Nationalism and hate is an illiberal European Import : Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - A Hungarian camerawoman trips a desperate Syrian refugee running into the country across the border with h...

Bellwether
February 5, 2016 19 min read

Sri Lanka tea and cinnamon, a tale of Mercantilism and oppression: Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has a ban and taxes on the import of tea, preventing domestic value addition for export, suppose...

Bellwether
January 28, 2016 17 min read
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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

Sri Lanka central bank has to be restrained for free trade to succeed: Bellwether

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's car owning bureaucrats, politicians and central bankers have started to tighten auto imports i...

Bellwether
December 25, 2015 5 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

Sri Lanka's haves, have nots and have yachts

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's latest budget has scrapped unfair privileges accorded to elite state employees that widened th...

Namal Suvendra
November 21, 2015 2 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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Sri Lanka's pharma control Neros fiddling while Colombo burns with falling rupee

Branded or 'original' drugs are much cheaper in this country than in their home markets in the US and Western Europe

Bellwether
November 4, 2015 18 min read
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