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April 24, 2022 · 1:43 pm

Addressing Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis

News Item entitled “Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and solutions” 

StratNews Global— India’s first premium digital platform on foreign policy and strategic affairs tracks international events from India’s perspective. Nitin Gokhale, India’s top strategic affairs expert is the Founder & Editor-in-Chief. Twitter @nitingokhale.

StratNews Global interviewed Chandrasena Maliyadde, Vice President of Sri Lanka Economic Association and Professor Sirimal Abeyratna, Dept of Economics, University of Colombo on the current Sri Lankan Economic Crisis and solutions. They explained the causes for and how and when the crisis began and the current situation and possible short-term and long-term remedial measures that the Government should take.

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April 22, 2022 · 3:06 pm

Dr Nadeera Rupesinghe: A Refreshing Interview in 2021 with Kamanthi Wickramasinghe

Nadeera Rupesinghe in Q and A with Kamalini  Wickramasinghe, 29 January 2020, in an Item entitled ….. “Politicians should Appoint Historians as Advisers – Dr. Rupesinghe”

Dr. Nadeera Rupesinghe

  • I believe the Dutch records have the oldest most extensive testimony of our ancestors
  • We may never realise the pitfalls we have fallen into by resorting to evidential sources that are limited, forged beyond detection or truncated
  • The most important factor is human resources and we must invest in people

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April 21, 2022 · 1:59 am

Gross Errors in Financial Management in Sr Lanka under the Gota Administration

Sanjeewa Jayaweera, in The Island, 20 April 2022, with this title “Ali Sabry confesses to the mistakes made”

Ali Sabry (AS), the newly appointed Finance Minister, was unusually candid and forthright in a couple of recent television interviews. He acknowledged the many mistakes made by the government on the economic front. Many believe that repenting over serious mistakes made, causing irreparable harm to the country’s citizens, is still unforgivable. These mistakes were made repeatedly over time, despite many independent economists and financial analysts asking for a reversal, making the crime harder to forgive. The words arrogance, egoistic, pompous, condescending and stupid will easily define those responsible for running the economy in the last two years.

 

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April 20, 2022 · 2:58 pm

Taking to Street: Protests typically Lankan in Style

Mey Lankaava Neydha!!!  …… !!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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April 18, 2022 · 9:25 pm

South Asia’s Arab Spring: Protests amid Hybrid Economic War in Pakistan and Sri Lanka

Darini Rajasingham Senanayake

South Asia’s Arab Spring is here, amid global Cold War tensions and slow tectonic shifts in power and wealth east, to Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, hastened and heightened by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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April 18, 2022 · 12:47 pm

The IMF Hands in Pakistan & Sri Lanka: Conjectures

A Pacific Island Pal

ONE:  There is a very good analysis of the IMF by Paul Masson in “The IMF: Victim of its own success or institutional failures?”  published in International Journal, Autumn 2007. Its focus is on how to reform the IMF and the problems involved, which recognises the need to reform the IMF. How successful that has been is open to debate.

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April 17, 2022 · 12:57 am

Sisira Jayasuriya eviscerates Ranjan De Silva

Sisira Jayasuriya ** in Email Memo to Thuppahi

Brigadier Ranjan De Silva’s Memo is a gross misrepresentation of the facts.
China did not grab the port and the land because the government could not pay back ‘the loan taken’. The government leased the port to the Chinese to raise cash to pay the loans taken from the capital markets through international sovereign bonds.

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April 16, 2022 · 11:42 pm

Rebutting Brigadier Ranjan De Silva’s Pro-American Line of Advocac

Fair Dinkum has sent a memorandum in vehement criticism of my Aloysian schoolmate, Brigadier Ranjan De Silva’s Arguments (see below) …… Michael Roberts

The unjustified slurs and smears the Brigadier brings on China cannot go by unchallenged.

First, China didn’t “grab” a harbour of land in Sri Lanka. The word “grab” is a loaded term designed to smear China. There is a history and a context to this [project] which the Brigadier fails to explain. I won’t do so here because all of this has been well documented in many credible sources.

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April 15, 2022 · 1:33 am

LANKA can de-dollarize? Beyond Bananas, Beaches, Bases and Dependent Development

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

Necessity is the mother of invention: Protests are mounting by people from all walks of life in all parts of Sri Lanka against the soaring cost of living, food and fuel shortages, black outs, lockdowns, forced Covid injections, and the sale of national assets by the ruling dual US citizen Rajapakse led regime in Colombo.

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April 14, 2022 · 7:24 pm

Female Leaders at the Grassroots in a COVID-19 World

Samanthi Gunawardana & Nedha De Silva, at https://lens.monash.edu/@celebrating-influential-women/2021/03/08/1382925/listening-to-women-in-grassroots-leadership-in-a-covid-19-world  …………. “It is a virus, we can get it anywhere, [but] we have a responsibility, and if we let go of workers now when they need us the most, what is the point?” – Chandra Devanarayana, Revolutionary Existence for Human Development, Sri Lanka

Long before COVID-19 hit Sri Lanka’s shores, grassroots women’s organisations fought poverty pay, long hours, and unsafe working conditions in the country’s garment manufacturing districts.

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