The government serves as the primary governing institution responsible for providing public goods, enforcing law and order, ensuring economic stability, and advancing national development goals. To carry out these wide-ranging economic and
The government serves as the primary governing institution responsible for providing public goods, enforcing law and order, ensuring economic stability, and advancing national development goals. To carry out these wide-ranging economic and
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Sri Lanka raised Rs. 80.6 billion through its Treasury bill auction on Wednesday, 21 October, falling Rs. 19.4 billion short of the Rs. 100 billion offered, as the Government accepted most funds
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Canada and Turkey will begin negotiations on a free trade agreement in November, as Ottawa seeks to expand its international economic partnerships amid a worsening trade dispute with the United States. The
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China’s exports rose 36.3 per cent year on year to US$447.18 billion in September, accelerating from August and substantially exceeding economists’ forecasts as demand for technology products strengthened ahead of the country’s
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Editorial Sri Lanka’s economic recovery is entering a more demanding phase, with growth expected to moderate over the next two years as geopolitical conflicts, energy-market disruptions and restrictive global financing conditions threaten
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Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for research that changed
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra argues that financial stability cannot mean preventing every crisis; it means building a system capable of absorbing shocks before they become systemic. With global debt, stretched asset valuations,
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The latest issue of Merkur, the German journal, takes aim at one of the increasingly popular descriptions of contemporary capitalism: “neofeudalism”. The term has gained currency as political and economic power becomes
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From the climate crisis and widening inequality to unaffordable housing and the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, a group of leading progressive economists is arguing that the response to today’s economic pressures
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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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