Photo courtesy of ABC News At the time of gaining independence 74 years ago, Sri Lanka was a prosperous country that was recognised as a…
Photo courtesy of Sustainable Pulse The decision to ban chemical fertilizer is one of the crucial policy changes taken by the current government since coming…
Photo courtesy Global Times When the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for economic sanctions against Sri Lanka, everyone over here sits up and takes…
Photo courtesy of The Howarths Over the last two decades the plantation sector has undergone huge changes in Sri Lanka including a sharp reduction in…
Photo courtesy of Kumanan Kanapathippillai The Sri Lankan government’s failure to respect human rights, democracy and accountability have caused alarm at home and abroad and…
Photo courtesy of Monash University Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone (FTZ) workers are employed in global factories deeply embedded in global supply chains. Historically, they…
Photo courtesy of IPS Today is the World Day Against Child Labour In the South Asian region, Sri Lanka is a success story when it…
Photo courtesy of MENAFN As it looks towards a post COVID-19 world, Sri Lanka, with its strategic location in the Indian Ocean, faces the stark…
Photo courtesy of The Star Sri Lanka’s admired initial coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic is now a distant memory. The second wave that multiplied…
The ban on the import of chemical fertilizer makes sense to some and not to others; however it has far reaching implications for food security.…
Photo courtesy of Roar Media The youth of a country are the forerunners of social progress; notwithstanding this historical fact, we cannot underestimate the role…
Photo courtesy of The Morning The recent scandals involving sugar and coconut oil should point the country to the dangers of private sector mafias and…
Trapped between unscrupulous microfinance companies and duplicitous governments, Sri Lanka’s rural women farmers are drowning in debt. Over 200 have committed suicide, some with their…
Photo courtesy of Twitter Saumya is a mother of two from Polonnaruwa who has taken a loan of Rs. 200,000 from a well-established microfinance company…
Photo courtesy of Facebook Today is the International Day of Forests “Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power.…
Photo courtesy of Huffpost It is one year since Sri Lanka went into lockdown. At a recent press briefing by women members of Sri Lanka…
Photo courtesy of The Guardian Using the policy tool of a dedicated special economic zone for services, the Colombo Port City in Sri Lanka aspires…
Photo courtesy of Longitude 80 The estate sector, a high foreign exchange earner for the country, is undergoing a severe crisis. On one hand, estate…
Photo courtesy of Head Topics Inadequate access to menstrual hygiene tools and education, or otherwise known as period poverty, is not a phenomenon that only…
Photo courtesy of CapX With the identification of COVID-19 infected persons associated with the Brandix Factory in Munuwangoda as the second wave of COVID 19,…
Photo courtesy of LMD The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, drew the attention of the world to the situation in Sri…
Cartoon courtesy Vasuki Jeyasankar Sri Lanka has not been immune to the ravaging effects of the novel coronavirus, which emerged late last year and has…
Photo courtesy of The New Indian Express When globalisation was the dominant concept for looking at the world, pandemics were discussed as a global security…
In an on-going series of podcasts with individuals in Sri Lanka, I caught up with economist Anushka Wijesinha to talk about the impact of the…
Photo courtesy Tribune.lk In the aftermath of Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s election victory, a number of competing narratives have emerged offering differing explanations of how we arrived…