But the struggle we are facing today is not just economic. Across the globe, the movement toward oligarchy runs parallel to the growth of authoritarian regimes – like Putin in Russia, Xi in China, Mohamed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Viktor Orbán in Hungry among…
“We need to urgently redirect the economy towards strengthening local production, and reverse the direction of trade and financial liberalization. The Government is finally taking measures to restrict imports. The Government also seems to have realised, even at this late stage, that it is the flight of capital to Western financial centres that has hammered…
By Umesh Moramudali Alliance for Economic Democracy (AED) is an organization formed by a group of persons who insists upon the importance of economic justice. Ceylon Today interviewed Ahilan Kadirgamar, a member of the AED, who in the course of the interview insisted how the possible outcomes of the IMF Agreement hurt the ordinary people…
“Sri Lanka today also faces two dangers in relation to the deflationary global economy. First, the danger of a foolish move by the Government to open up trade, precisely when there is over production and falling prices in the global market that could undermine production within the country. The other danger is the increasingly xenophobic…
Ahilan Kadirgamar on Left Discourse -‘Sri Lanka and the Global Economy: ECTA, FDI and other options organized by Socialist Study Circle, held on Friday, 11 March 2016 at the Sama Samaja Piyasa සමාජවාදී අධ්ය්යන කවයේ සංවිධානයෙන් පසුගිය මාර්තු 11 දින සම සමාජ පියසේ දී වමේ කතිකාව: ශ්රී ලංකාව හා ගෝලීය ආර්ථිකය:ඊසීටීඒ,විදේශ ආයෝජන හා අනෙකුත් විකල්ප…
It is one year since Sri Lanka witnessed a dramatic regime change and the country has just stepped into a make or break year. How it crafts its political and economic vision now will profoundly impact its future. Exactly a year after his election, President Maithripala Sirisena has initiated a welcome process to rewrite the…
