Sri Lanka economic crisis
Healthcare crisis in Sri Lanka
With the economic crisis, shortages and increased prices of medicine are forcing patients to go without vital drugs and care
Roshan Gunasekare | Apr 13, 2023
Sri Lanka’s great IMF lie
Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a new, self-sufficient model of development
Ahilan Kadirgamar and Devaka Gunawardena | Feb 20, 2023
Sri Lanka’s local elections are a major threat to the ruling class
Rising anger, prolonged economic crisis, painful IMF-backed policies and the government’s anti-democratic tendencies are creating a volatile mix, with Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Rajapaksas and Sri Lanka’s political elites on alert
Jayadeva Uyangoda | Feb 13, 2023
Rethinking Sri Lanka’s economic crisis
Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar on Sri Lanka’s political economy in a time of great crisis.
The Editors | Feb 28, 2022
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