Innovative Social Protection Measures Vital for Children to Recover from...
Photo courtesy of News Tube It should be universally acknowledged that the socioeconomic impact of the multiple crises which have been unfolding in Sri Lanka since the COVID-19 pandemic has invalidated...
View ArticleAddress Unknown: The Plight of the Malaiyaga Thamilar Community
Photo courtesy of Mother Jones The irony is not lost on the Malaiyaga Thamilar community. A stamp was issued in commemoration of former minister and leader of the Ceylon Workers Congress, the late...
View ArticleDebt Restructuring, Austerity and the IMF: a Panacea or an Exacerbation? Part 1
Photo courtesy of India Post-independent Sri Lanka has suffered from recurrent economic crises; the more notable ones being in August 1953, in the late 1970s and most pertinently the current crisis...
View ArticleA Strategy to Address Child Abandonment
Photo courtesy of Compassion Child abandonment, a distressing issue with far reaching consequences, has reached alarming proportions in Sri Lanka. Within this year, ECPAT Sri Lanka’s media monitoring...
View ArticleDebt Restructuring, Austerity and the IMF: a Panacea or an Exacerbation? Part 6
Photo courtesy of Twitter The IMF programme needs to be used to negotiate debt restructuring with commercial and multilateral creditors. It would create space to spend on priorities such as food and...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn from Sri Lanka’s Debt Default?
Photo courtesy of Ceylon Independent At Independence in 1948, Sri Lanka was second to Japan on most socio-economic indicators and ahead of South Korea on per capita income in 1960; it has since slipped...
View ArticleIMF: Strengthening the Social Safety Net is Critical
Photo courtesy of Sunday Observer The IMF has reached a staff-level agreement after conducting the first review of Sri Lanka’s extended fund facility arrangement. The release of the second tranche of...
View ArticleA Governance Diagnostic by the Sri Lankan Public
Photo courtesy of News Nation As the IMF has noted in its Governance Diagnostic Assessment in September, “The resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July 2022 emphasized that addressing the...
View ArticleAswesuma: High Exclusion, Low Transparency?
Photo courtesy of Global Press Journal The Welfare Benefits Board (WBB) called for applications last year for people to be included in the new registry that will bring all the current benefits schemes...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Inequality
Photo courtesy of Discover Beyond This article was prompted by a question I came across during some recent discussions. Does inequality matter? My immediate reaction was to point out that all types of...
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