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

| 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

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

| 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.

| Feb 28, 2022

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