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[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The Partnership Between NPP & JVP Must Be Emboldened (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Ranil Creating The 2nd Batalanda? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Prospects At The Next Election (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Central Bank Independence: Issue To The Fore Again, But Will The Government Have Foresight To Do It? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- New Central Banking Bill: Positive But Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- New Central Bank Bill: Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- Deciding On New Central Bank Act Is Too Precious To Be Left Only To Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
No sign of abolishing price controls
- Sri Lanka’s new price controls on eggs could lead to shortages: poultry association (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bakery owners shift price control drumbeat from eggs to wheat flour (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s bakers call for price controls on wheat flour after hurting egg farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Fowl Policy (Category: Business)
[…]The post Jaffna University Vice-Chancellor Caught Copying & Cheating appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Jaffna University Vice-Chancellor Commits Fraud Again With Impunity (Category: Breaking News)
- Eternal Impunity For Academic Fraud In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- When The Gatekeepers Of Academic Standards & Integrity Commit Fraud, What Is Left Of The Sri Lan... (Category: Breaking News)
- Four New Universities: A Premature Budget Proposal For Cheats (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- National Council’s Economic Stabilisation Report Is A Welcome Sign (Category: Breaking News)
- Corruption & Lack Of Common-Sense; Presidential Brutalities (Category: Breaking News)
- Lack of Common Sense Of A Time-Expired President (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget 2023: A Depth Or Dearth (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 600 Articles Over 11 Years: What Did They Tell The Reading Public & Policymakers? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- My View Completes 13 Years: Still Batting & Not-Out Yet (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Remember Ranil Is Revengeful & A Risk To Rights appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya At The Cross-Roads & In The Cross-Hairs (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Thank You Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
- IMF chief pleased SL reached staff-level deal for $2.9 billion (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha hints at Chinese hurdle in debt relief talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka awaiting assurances from India, China, says Central Bank Governor (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil’s Biggest Woe: What To Do When Fiscal & Monetary Policies Have Failed & Are Still Falling? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Demand Of 182 Academics For Cancelling Sri Lanka’s Foreign Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF Facility? Is It Sufficient To Deliver Prosperity To Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- New Central Banking Bill: Positive But Gaps Need To Be Filled (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
British Politics and Ours Both Sri Lanka and the UK have experienced an unprecedented political upheaval of late. It is interesting that both leaders agreed to resign within a day of each other. Everybody else saw the ‘the end is nigh’ sign for quite a while. They didn’t or didn’t want to see it until […]
- Laksiri, Issadeen win open men’s and women’s titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Lochana, Warangana clinch singles titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Mihiran, Malshani adjudged best boxers at Nationals (Category: Breaking News)
Global un-employment set to rise
- Sri Lanka inflation hits 54.6-pct in June 2022 after money printing (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka, world suffers terribly from Fed’s accidental discovery: Bellwether (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed hikes rates 75bp as Powell Bubble pushes up food prices hurting the poor (Category: Breaking News)
- Hong Kong, GCC pegs, Vietnam hike rates after Fed as Sri Lanka eyes flexible policy (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Impunity In Times Of Uncertainty appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Kapila Jayasekera: Killer-In-Chief In Both ACF & Five Students Cases (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Democratic Credentials? A Test, A Challenge! (Category: Breaking News)
- Commission Of Inquiry: Testify At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- The ACF Commission: To Exorcise Ghosts Of Truth That Continued To Haunt Regardless (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citizens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Online Safety Bill & Anti-Terror Bill – Law Making To End Democracy & Fundamental Rights Of Sri... (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- When Will Sri Lankan Children Be Prioritized In This Crisis? (Category: Breaking News)
- Obligations Of 225 MPs & The Party Leaders To The People Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Indian billion dollar credit line also works Undiyal fashion
- Sri Lanka removes ban on open account food imports (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka CB takes on task finding dollars for food after open account ban (Category: Breaking News)
Central bank gets ACU dollar to peg and also force purchase dollars through a surrender rule to prevent a float
- Sri Lanka central bank busts US$9.8bn since Feb 2020 to suppress rates, for stimulus (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank US$4.0bn in debt by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka forex reserves edge up by slightly to US$1,717mn in September (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka’s New Government: Be Warned Of The Empty Treasury & Negative Foreign Reserves appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Budget 2023 Will Be The Acid Test Of RW’s Magic Wand (Category: Breaking News)
- SC Judgment, Fiscal Philosophy, & Long-Term Decisions For A Brighter Future (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka Drive Itself From Bankruptcy To Prosperity In 2023? (Category: Breaking News)
Says economy could contract 7-pct in 2022
- Sri Lanka’s total debt burden Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Once the Parliament approves IMF agreement, the main points will be passed into law – Sri Lanka ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives financial assurance letter from China (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s total debt burden increased to Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today. He said that Sri Lanka needs to pay $3.4 billion between June and December this year, $5.8 billion in 2023, $4.9 billion in 2024, $6.2 billion in 2025, $4.0 billion in 2026 and $4.3 billion […]
- Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s full statement on IMF negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives financial assurance letter from China (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- President blames Sajith for crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Forex loss Rs145bn
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Bond Auction (Category: Business)
- ‘SL will implement home-grown solution’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Flavour (Category: Business)
Sampath Bank PLC announced the appointment of veteran international banker and risk management consultant Hiran Cabraal as Non-Executive, Independent Director to its Board of Directors, with effect from 30th June 2022. With a rich and diverse experience and a proven 34-year international track record in leadership roles, Hiran Anthony Cabraal brings with him a wealth […]
- HSBC senior executive meets Cabraal (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC to provide $400 million to banks in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- HSBC Group GM calls on CB Chief (Category: Business)
- SampathCards introduces real time Rewards Points Redemption at Keells Supermarkets for the first... (Category: Breaking News)
By N Sathiya Moorthy Unending sporadic incidents of targeted killing in which vehicle-bound gunmen take out individuals on the streets across the Sinhala South, unthinking mismanagement of the distribution of available fuel among emergency staff in hospitals and elsewhere reported from across the country, and such other episodes, day in and day out have created […]
- Gota’s resignation and Ranil’s appointment gazetted (Category: Breaking News)
- Government says peaceful protesters have withdrawn (Category: Breaking News)
- SJB protest forces President to walk out (Category: Breaking News)
- WHAT NEXT? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Foreign Borrowings: Are They An Evil Or Not? (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Debt Restructuring: Too Late & Too Short To Get Out Of The Debt Trap (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Demand Of 182 Academics For Cancelling Sri Lanka’s Foreign Debt (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Aragalaya & Morality (Category: Breaking News)
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Unarmed but not peaceful (Category: Breaking News)
Views of Milton Friedman, Robert Mundel and how John Greenwood and Alan Walters set up the Hong Kong currency board
- Milton Friedman’s views on currency boards explained by Hanke amid Sri Lanka soft-peg crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka continues to soft-peg in May intervening in both directions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank deep in debt, dollar shortages at ‘guidance’ rate : Wijewardena (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lankan Economy Heading Towards A Dangerous Phase appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Lanka-Arab Relations (Category: Breaking News)
- The President, IMF & System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- What Next For Aragalaya? (Category: Breaking News)
- Restructuring The Economy: A Stock Take (Category: Breaking News)
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