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Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

February 10, 2023
Human Rights/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

Sri Lanka: Plight of Muslim Women

At a gathering of women for a home cooked meal at Thai Pongal, a Hindu harvest festival, in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, a Muslim woman remarked that last year 65

Editorials/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

Sri Lanka: IMF’s new Jamaica?

by Our Economic Affairs Correspondent “The IMF’s emphasis on fiscal austerity has proven to be misguided and has resulted in economic stagnation, high levels of unemployment, and increased poverty in many countries.” – Noam Chomsky Sri Lanka is eagerly anticipating

February 16, 2023

Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation: Responsibility of Global South 

Interviews/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

INTERVIEW It is time for the nations of the global South to build their own way, to self-organize, Gary Dymski, a well-known economist and

Sri Lanka: An Open Letter to Official Bilateral Creditors

Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

It was with great satisfaction and sincere hope that I welcomed the announcement made last Tuesday by the Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina

Debt restructuring, austerity and the IMF: a panacea or an exacerbation? — Part 2

August 12, 2023
Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

Click here to read Part 1 of this series Neo-liberalism Neo-liberalism is not a solution, but the principal cause of the problem. I would like to offer some personal insights here from

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Debt restructuring, austerity and the IMF: a panacea or an exacerbation? — Part 1

August 9, 2023
Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

An outline of the problem Post-independent Sri Lanka (Lanka) has suffered from recurrent economic crises; the more notable ones being in August 1953, in the late 1970s and most pertinently the current

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The Role of Alternative Financing Mechanisms to Address Sri Lanka’s Debt Overhang

June 19, 2023
Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

The common path followed by almost all IMF member countries in response to sovereign debt crises in recent decades,is to enter into an IMF supported stabilisation and structural adjustment programme. Sri Lanka

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Revival Rhetoric Falls Flat for Struggling Sri Lankans

April 3, 2023
Columns/Human Rights/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

Many Sri Lankans are concerned about their next meal, the high cost of living, deteriorating health, stagnant incomes, how to buy school requisites for their children, malnutrition and increasing poverty which they

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Sri Lanka: Chamber congratulates Government on securing IMF Bailout

March 21, 2023
Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce congratulates the Government on securing the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) with the IMF. We appreciate the efforts of the Government led by the President, the Governor of

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Sri Lanka: An Open Letter to Official Bilateral Creditors

March 14, 2023
Business/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

It was with great satisfaction and sincere hope that I welcomed the announcement made last Tuesday by the Managing Director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, that an IMF Executive Board meeting will

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Sri Lanka: IMF’s new Jamaica?

February 16, 2023
Editorials/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

by Our Economic Affairs Correspondent “The IMF’s emphasis on fiscal austerity has proven to be misguided and has resulted in economic stagnation, high levels of unemployment, and increased poverty in many countries.”

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Sri Lanka: Plight of Muslim Women

February 10, 2023
Human Rights/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

At a gathering of women for a home cooked meal at Thai Pongal, a Hindu harvest festival, in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, a Muslim woman remarked that last year 65

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Sri Lanka and IMF: Delusional Partners

January 29, 2023
Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

Here we go again. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in command of Sri Lanka’s economy, barking orders and making demands in an effort to restore macroeconomic stability. The pattern is a familiar one. Back

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Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation: Responsibility of Global South 

January 23, 2023
Interviews/Sri Lanka Debt Cancellation

INTERVIEW It is time for the nations of the global South to build their own way, to self-organize, Gary Dymski, a well-known economist and Professor of Applied Economics at the Leeds University

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