Echelon's Shine 50: recognising young game-changing women

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Tracing the Unseen Workforce: Gig Workers and Algorithms Dictating Their Movements

Anisha Gooneratne on protecting gig workers vulnerable to higher degrees of risk
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IMF Review: Sri Lanka’s Precarious Path to Recovery

IMF officials weigh in on Sri Lanka’s elections, tax cuts and reforms
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Sri Lanka Can Dollarize and Stop Forcing People to Leave their Birthplace

A case for breaking the deadly flexible exchange money monopoly
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Insights: Sri Lanka's Clogged Courts and Muddled Property Laws

Insights from the IMF report that scrutinizes Sri Lankan rule of law
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Explaining Sri Lanka's Bilateral Debt Restructuring Deal: a Breather on a Tightrope

Where does Sri Lanka go from here? Escalate the IMF addiction to debt defaults?
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IMF Diagnostic on Customs and IRD: A Proclivity for Corruption

A brief on the IMF's Governance Diagnostic Assessment for Sri Lanka
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Houses on Fire? Explaining Imputed Rental Income Tax

The proposed new tax on property is questionable, and raises several questions
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Explaining the New Electricity Bill and Why it Matters

A courageous, transformative measure, leading business chamber says
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Police: the criminal's dream

An outdated police force is the ultimate dream of every criminal and the nightmare of the rest of us—the law-abiding citizens.
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How to design a social protection scheme

Sri Lanka’s Samurdhi cash transfer scheme for the poor was notorious for its poor governance. Over 60% of the poorest 20% of the population didn’t receive any benefits. The world bank has provided technical assistance to the government to design a new social protection scheme.
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Figuring out the priorities for an economic revival with faris hadad-zervos

In an interview, Faris Hadad-Zervos the World Bank’s Country Director for Sri Lanka discussed the priorities that will frame the bank’s lending over the next few years.
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Future-proofing sri lanka’s legal system

Sri Lanka has drawn up several plans for reforming its justice system during the last decades, but change has been notoriously hard. In this Reshape Europe discussion, three lawyers representing different parts of the system discuss how it might now want to progress.
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Debt restructuring, everything you need to know

Locked out of global financial markets and unable to rollover its foreign currency debt, Sri Lanka faces stark choices. One of those is to restructure its foreign currency debt.
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China vs India: Sri Lanka is doing a better job at balancing these economic giants than you think

Debunking the debt trap narrative: Balancing the two geopolitical powerhouses is necessary for growth and requires deft political manoeuvring, and Sri Lanka is not doing as badly as many would assume, economists argue.
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Why Small Businesses Don’t Grow?

Around 70% of Sri Lankan workers hold informal jobs. Why is informality so stubbornly high, and does it matter in the first place
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Triple shock for finance companies

Crippling economic conditions, contracting credit and a looming deadline to increase core capital will leave most small finance companies in a mire unlike any they have known
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What an LRT loan tells us about the debt problem

A cancellation of a loan to build a light rail raises questions about how, and from whom, Sri Lanka should borrow
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Mattala airport buzzes after covid

Described as a white elephant, operations at Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport ground to a halt in 2015. The COVID-19 pandemic’s outbreak has sparked a revival in air traffic to Mattala and the airports’ authority plans to leverage that interest
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Why do we need a constitution?

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”- Goethe
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Economic priorities for the new president

Former Minister Milinda Moragoda has outlined the most critical economic challenges facing Sri Lanka’s new president
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