Economic reforms in Sri Lanka: Salvation or a recipe for inaction?
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Economic reforms have become an urgent need for Sri Lanka, with successive governments since independence, resorting to short-term, politically expedient economic strategies that have placed considerable macroeconomic pressures whilst reducing Sri Lanka’s global competitiveness. Vision 2025, the current government’s short...
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Opinion: Economic reforms in Sri Lanka: Salvation or a recipe for inaction?
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Economic reforms have become an urgent need for Sri Lanka, with successive governments since independence, resorting to short-term, politically expedient economic strategies that have placed considerable macroeconomic pressures whilst reducing Sri Lanka’s global competitiveness. Vision 2025, the current government’s short...
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International trade expert says signing FTAs won’t help revive SL’s export sector
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Signing FTA with Singapore is not a game changer, it is incorrect to say FTAs create massive benefits like generating a lot of exports  FTAs can complement provided there is capacity to produce products that are competitive to meet demand, standards...
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Quota Conundrums
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One of the key expectations of the Local Government (LG) elections was the premise that 25% of women would be elected to represent the 341 councils and municipalities around the country. However, legal and logistical issues that have cropped up...
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International trade expert says signing FTAs won’t help revive SL’s export sector
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Signing FTA with Singapore is not a game changer, it is incorrect to say FTAs create massive benefits like generating a lot of exports  FTAs can complement provided there is capacity to produce products that are competitive to meet demand, standards...
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FTA with Singapore, positive signal to world
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Sri Lanka has managed to send a positive signal to the world, demonstrating the country’s openness to investments and its willingness to create much-needed business links with the rest of the world by signing a comprehensive, high quality FTA with...
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In Sri Lanka, local elections have rattled the government
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TO CRITICS of Mahinda Rajapaksa, local-council elections that were held in Sri Lanka on February 10th felt like a horror film, as the controversial ex-president rose from his silk-lined political coffin to declare victory. And what a victory it was...
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Had Mahinda Rajapaksa run for president on 10 Feb, he would have lost
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Few would have predicted the results of Sri Lanka’s local government elections in 2018. With the benefit of hindsight, we must now try to understand what happened and why. There are three lessons to be learnt from the results –...
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STF brutality against Muslims in Digana: March 5
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This story is based on visits to both sites and testimonies of at least 10 survivors and about 5 eyewitnesses present As Sinhalese – Buddhist mobs were escalating violence against Muslims around Digana on March 5, the Hijrapura mosque in...
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Sri Lanka’s strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa is back
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Sri Lankas starker Mann Mahinda Rajapakse ist wieder da   Altpräsident Rajapakse hat seinen Machtanspruch nie aufgegeben. Nun hat der ehemalige Autokrat ein oppositionelles Bündnis um sich geschart und damit die Lokalwahlen in Sri Lanka haushoch gewonnen. Volker Pabst, Delhi...
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