සෞඛ්‍යය, අධ්‍යාපනය, පිරිසිදු කිරීම, යටිතල පහසුකම් වැනි සේවා වැනි බොහෝ සේවාවන් ප්‍රමාණයක් තීරණය කරන ගාමක බලවේගයක් වන්නේ මේ පළාත් පාලන ආයතනයි. එනමුත් මේ ක්‍රියාවලියේදී ඡන්දය ලබා දීමට අමතරව ඔබට සම්බන්ධ විය හැකි ආකාරය පිළිබදව ඔබ දන්නවද? ඒ අයවැය සම්පාදනය කිරීමේ ක්‍රියාවලිය තුලිනි. පළාත් පාලන ආයතන යනු කියන්නේ මෙරට ජන ජීවිතයට සෘජුවම බලපාන ආයතනයකි.ඒ වගේම පුරවැසියන්…
(The writer is a Co-Founder of Arutha and a Director at the organisation. Arutha is an economic research and civic education organisation established in 2022, with a primary focus on public debt and taxation) US President Donald Trump shocked the world on 2 April by announcing his Liberation Day tariffs – a spate of import…
Many newspapers are erroneously portraying the newly launched credit guarantee scheme (CGS) under the National Credit Guarantee Institution (NCGI) as a first-of-its-kind scheme. While the NCGI itself is a new institution set up to operationalise an ABD-funded CGS aimed at SMEs, CGS’s themselves are not a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. Even the NCGI itself…
This article was written by Rehana Thowfeek, Co-Founder & Director, Arutha. Arutha is an economic research and civic education organisation established in 2022, with a primary focus on public debt and taxation. This article is an adaptation of a paper published by the author in the Bandaranaike Academy for Leadership and Public Policy (BALPP) Policy…
By Charuka Peiris and Rojie Ekanayake It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: the new National People’s Power (NPP) Government, riding on a wave of election victory, has been tasked with ushering Sri Lanka into an era of growth. However, the realities of fiscal limits in a post-default setting remain. Caught…
How will Colombo’s economic relations with Beijing proceed in the post-default era? By Umesh Moramudali and Yunnan Chen Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to Beijing from January 14 to 17 is his second foreign trip following a mission to India last year. While his trip to India reflected its status as Sri Lanka’s major economic partner, his trip…
By Yenuli Ranaweera The Covid-19 pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, or the ‘Chinese debt trap’: most initial media reports incorrectly attributed Sri Lanka’s economic woes to these contemporary issues, glossing over the serious, long-standing issues that brought it to a head. These include years of structural inefficiencies, unsustainable policies, and financial mismanagement which left the country…
By Charuka Peiris (The writer is the Programme and Research Officer at Arutha. Arutha is a Colombo-based policy think tank focused on economic research and communication with a special interest in public debt and taxation. Its economic civic education initiative, Default LK, was established during Sri Lanka’s first-ever sovereign default in 2022) President Anura Kumara…
By Rehana Thowfeek This article is written by Rehana Thowfeek. The writer is the Director of Civic Education at Arutha. There has been a lot of talk about the appreciation of the Sri Lankan Rupee against the US Dollar in the past few weeks and months. At the start of the year, the exchange rate…
This article was originally published in the Daily FT. (Dr. Sujeong Shim is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research focuses on the link between domestic politics and international economic cooperation with a focus on the IMF.) (Sachintha Pilapitiya is a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, China and…
