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The World Bank & Sri Lanka: Understanding A 68-Year Relationship

On Monday, 29 July, the World Bank announced that it does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka until the country has an adequate macroeconomic policy framework in place.

Education vs. Fuel: A Lose-Lose Situation

Last week – after many months of schools not being considered ‘essential services’ – the Government of Sri Lanka made the decision to restart schools across our crisis-hit nation, with the promise that school vans will receive priority in the fuel queues. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education also decided that schools located in areas where students and teachers do not have transportation issues will be open five days a week as usual.

What Sri Lanka’s Interim Budget Looks Like

Sri Lanka’s economy is still gasping for breath. Weakened by decades of fiscal and external deficits, pummelled by near-sighted and ill-advised tax cuts and money printing and brought right to edge by a shaking global crisis, it’s easy to be pessimistic about the country’s future.

Healing Through Peace-Building With Activist Anojitha Sivaskaran With Activist Anojitha Sivaskaran

Once an internally displaced person during Sri Lanka’s 30-year civil conflict, Anojitha Sivaskaran now works with organisations across the world, sharing her stories to contribute towards peace-building efforts worldwide.

How A Stronger Female Workforce Can Secure Our Economy

With the long-term challenges of #PopulationAgeing likely to increase pressure on our workforce to both provide and save, could more #WorkingWomen be key to ensuring we adapt sustainably and in time?

Recapping 09 July: How Demonstrators Took Over The Presidential Palace

After 92 days of protesting outside the Presidential Secretariat, protesters supported by millions of citizens were able to storm President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Presidential Palace and office — a watershed moment in the peoples’ struggle that began earlier this year.

Why Sri Lanka Is Approaching Its ‘Worst Man-Made Disaster’ In History

“What we see is that this is the worst man-made disaster to the agriculture sector since gaining independence in 1948.”

Here’s Why We Must Prepare For Population Ageing

How is Sri Lanka’s ageing population likely to affect its long-term economic interests? How can policymakers today help the country adapt to this trend and remain prosperous in the face of a shrinking labour sector and declining fertility rates?

Sri Lanka’s Medicine Shortage Is Making Preventable Deaths More Likely

A number of medicines and medical items that are required by chronically ill patients are in shortage in the market due to the worsening economic crisis.

‘From Community, To Community’: How Community Kitchens Feed Sri Lanka’s Underserved

Once we had an uncle who told us that it was his second plate of rice after four months. Another one said he had a piece of chicken after three months,” Akash Moses recalled while behind him the daily operations of the Rajagiriya Community Kitchen run by the Voice For Voiceless Foundation were in full swing. “Then there was this homeless community in Kamachchode in Negombo. The people there thanked us for the food and thanked us for having a meal with them when everyone else have alienated them.

Kitchen Lament and Farming Fridays

The ‘Kitchen Lament’ is a recent protest where people clattered saucepans and pots to make noise against the Government, who they blame for causing the severe food shortage.

Sri Lankan Tea Estate Workers Continue Suffer During Economic Crisis

It is a cruel irony when the tea plantation workers have had a cup of milk tea as a luxury item. But with its economy in complete meltdown, many of the estate workers of the Argyle estate in Hatton have had to ration even their daily cups of tea.

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