“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…
“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…
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…
'කතිකා' සංවාද මණ්ඩපය 'kathika' sanvada mandapaya 