report in The Island, June 11, 2023Sri Lanka’s poor has surged by 4 million to 7 million since 2019 to 31 percent of the population in 2023, a survey has found as the country was hit by the worst currency crisis in the history of its central bank. A 10,000 person survey by LirneAsia, a regional policy research organization, found that 33 percent of the respondents had skipped a meal and 47 percent reduced their…
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report in The Island, June 11, 2023Sri Lanka’s poor has surged by 4 million to 7 million since 2019 to 31 percent of the population in 2023, a survey has found as the country was hit by the worst currency crisis in the history of its central bank. A 10,000 person survey by LirneAsia, a regional policy research organization, found that 33 percent of the respondents had skipped a meal and 47 percent reduced their…
It is gross incompetence and mismanagement by central and provincial governments alike, even more than the glaring demand-supply imbalance, that is responsible for the worst wheat crisis in the county’s history. Every day hundreds of thousands of people queue up for hours on end to receive subsidised wheat and flour promised by the government, only to return empty handed as the price of staple food continues to break all records. Worse still, there are reports…
report on EconomyNext online, Dec 7, 2022 at 3:49 pmECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka businesses are facing a drain of talent, top business executives said as the country suffers the worst flexible exchange rate crisis in the history of its intermediate regime central bank and people lose hope. “We are seeing a trend towards migrating,” Krishan Balendra, Chairman of Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings told an economic policy forum organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.…
Blood of our children
by Farrukh Khan Pitafi in The Express Tribune, Dec 16th, 2023.The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist.……December 16 will remain a day of infamy in the annals of Pakistani history for two reasons. First, the loss of its eastern wing. Second, the murder of our children by terrorists. Our collective imagination has found interesting ways to deal with this double whammy. For the fall of East Pakistan, we have found ways to reinvent history. Day…