by polity.lk | Apr 8, 2025 | Economy
Made in Sri Lanka, Taxed in America, and Failed by the IMF Taniya Silvapulle IntroductionOn 2 April 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs, imposing trade measures on partners across the globe. The policy included a baseline 10%...
by polity.lk | Mar 25, 2025 | Economy
Budget 2025: Playing A Bad Hand B. Skanthakumar Introduction ‘Budget 2025’ – delivered before parliament on 17 February by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) in his capacity as Minister of Finance and passed on 21 March – is the first concretisation of the...
by polity.lk | Mar 18, 2025 | Economy
Contingence, Conjuncture and Structure: The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka Sumanasiri Liyanage Prologue Vice-Chancellor; Deputy Vice-Chancellor; Dean, Faculty of Arts; Head, Department of Economics; members of Prof. H. A. de S. Gunasekera’s family; colleagues, friends,...
by polity.lk | Aug 12, 2024 | Economy
South Asia in the New Global Debt Crisis – A Call for Collective Solutions Amali Wedagedara Debt payments of developing countries exceed their national revenue. According to a new report, Resolving The Worst Ever Global Debt Crisis, 118 developing countries are...
by polity.lk | Jun 19, 2024 | Economy
‘A Collective Voice must be raised for Plantation Workers’Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union “This Tribunal is horrified and shocked by the stark realities of the lives of tea and rubber plantation workers. It has shocked the conscience of the members of the Tribunal that...
by polity.lk | Mar 25, 2024 | Economy
“Put people at the centre of plans for socio-economic recovery and advancement”: No to IMF’s cosmetic civil society consultations! 68 Civil Society Organisations and Trade Unions The IMF team is in Colombo for the Second Review of the ongoing Extended Fund Facility...
