By Saman Indrajith Former Health Minister and Kalutara District SJB MP Dr Rajitha Senaratne says that…
Category: Economic Crisis
Who are the culprits behind the economic crisis?
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena on Thursday named a 14-member Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) under the Chairmanship…
Economic sectors at risk from departures of 14,000 professionals By Nadia Fazlulhaq
The growing exodus of professionals and skilled workers to foreign countries will threaten the quality of…
Disturbing statistics of the impact of economic mismanagement and contradictory narratives
The Government last week obtained approval from Parliament for its Domestic Debt Restructuring Plan now referred…
Existing laws sufficient enough to take action against economic criminals: AKD
While reiterating that existing laws are sufficient enough to take action against criminals involved in economic…
Exercise in futility
A Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) has been set up to probe how the country became bankrupt.…
Involuntary & Inequitable DDO By Ameer Ali –
Domestic debt restructuring (DDR) is the second half of the debt restructuring (DR) strategy mooted by…
Naysayers of domestic debt restructuring: What is the alternative?
Parliament on Saturday approved a domestic debt restructuring program that would rework nearly half of the…
Health sector woes need emergency treatment
Saying Sri Lanka’s health sector is in crisis would be an understatement. It is not only…
Sri Lanka: Health Workers Action Committee holds meeting at Kandy General Hospital
On June 24, the Health Workers Action Committee (HWAC) held an important meeting at the Kandy…
Opposition slams govt. over domestic debt restructuring
Champika & GL Expressing strong opposition to the proposed domestic debt restructuring programme announced by the…
Repaying our debts. and the unthinkable alternative
Up to December 2022, our external debt stood at US$ $49.7 billion. By April 2023 we…
Sri Lankan economy not out of the woods yet Five things that could make or break it
Mahinda Rajapaksa swelled the government service from 700,000 when he came to power to over 1.5…
Where are Sri Lanka’s economists?
By Uditha Devapriya Asoka Bandarage’s Colonialism in Sri Lanka (first published in 1983) follows a long…
JVP leader says ministers use crises to line their pockets
JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament on Thursday that the government ministers have no genuine…
IMF programme: Is there a way out?
by Garvin Karunaratne The Sri Lankan government is finding it hard to fulfil the regulations…
Inflation, Interest Rate & Imperialism By Ameer Ali –
Sri Lanka, like many countries in the neoliberal free market economy zone, is at war with…
Lankans opt to spend less on education
Around 40 percent of Sri Lankans have resorted to livelihood-based coping strategies by reducing their spending…