Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His expertise includes global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis, and sovereign debt restructuring. He regularly blogs at Follow the Money.
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A constitutional and institutional dilemma is emerging at the heart of Sri Lanka’s Parliament over the position of its current Speaker, Jagath Wickramaratne, following reports that the
In a fragrant garden near San Francisco, Hamid Hayat, 43, tells his story over a coldening frittata. He is a thin man in jeans, a T-shirt and a Dallas Cowboys cap. Almost every sentence begins with the same two words:
Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production plunged by nearly 2 million barrels per day in August to its lowest level in more than 35 years,
Editorial Sri Lanka’s exclusion from meaningful participation in BRICS should be treated as a diplomatic failure, not disguised as another routine event in international
Sri Lanka’s macro-linked bonds (MLBs) are, in fact, not really macro-linked bonds. After 2027, they are standard fixed-income instruments which provide no help in the event of future shocks. The final restructuring terms are
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