by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
by Our Correspondent in Colombo A prominent Chinese economist has called for a substantially expanded economic and commercial relationship between China and Sri Lanka, proposing the revival of a bilateral free-trade agreement,
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Investment promotion has been Colombo’s default strategy for two decades. The real barrier to foreign capital was never Sri Lanka’s pitch — it is Sri Lanka’s paperwork and administrative complexity. For more
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While centre driven and managed high level economic changes, both structural and financial, are necessary, an assumption that the benefits of such changes will flow to the periphery through a trickledown theory
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Russia is rapidly expanding a shadow fleet of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers ahead of tougher European Union sanctions due to take effect in 2027, according to a Financial Times investigation. The
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I might as well begin with two servings of fascist potatoes. The first comes from Wilhelm Reich, the great renegade psychoanalyst, who observed in 1934 that “Hitler’s gift of a sack of
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Sri Lanka recorded a budget surplus of Rs. 197.3 billion during the first five months of 2026, marking a significant turnaround from the deficit recorded during the same period a year earlier,
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SpaceX is paying borrowing costs comparable to personal loans as investors demand high yields on its debt, reflecting growing uncertainty over the company’s ability to translate rapid expansion and artificial intelligence ambitions
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Argentina’s economic transformation under President Javier Milei is producing sharply different realities depending on where people stand. For agricultural entrepreneur Marcos Pereda, the country’s economic direction has brought record harvests, rising exports,
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JPMorgan Chase is reshaping its approach to national security financing with a sweeping investment initiative that will see the country’s largest bank deploy billions of dollars of its own capital into companies
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Across the vast expanse of the Sahara, a decades-old energy ambition is beginning to move again. After years of stalled plans, diplomatic disputes, and financial uncertainty, the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) has
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This article is particularly relevant at a time when the global trading environment is undergoing significant change and regional economic partnerships are playing an increasingly important role in shaping international trade and
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At a recent Ambassadors’ Roundtable held in Colombo, as part of the premier diplomatic and policy dialogue series hosted by the Pathfinder Foundation, Dewi Gustina Tobing, Indonesian Ambassador to Sri Lanka and
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor If you read markets today as anything other than a speculative mirror reflecting its own adrenaline, you are not paying attention—or worse, you are being paid not
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BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said on Tuesday that he expects the Chinese electric vehicle maker to become the world’s largest automaker within five years, making the statement at the company’s annual shareholder
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The artificial intelligence industry has entered a phase of extraordinary financial acceleration, with leading developers and major technology corporations preparing for a surge of public listings and capital-raising operations that could reshape
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