by ssa-admin-032024 | Oct 17, 2022 | Intervention
Outline of a Redistributive State in the Southern Periphery Devaka Gunawardena A clear line against political repression is beginning to emerge within democratic opposition forces in Sri Lanka, or broadly speaking, those who oppose the current government of Ranil...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Sep 13, 2022 | Intervention
‘The Writing Was on The Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka Jayati Ghosh In the fourth in a series of talks organised by Polity magazine of the Social Scientists’ Association and the Women and Media Collective with feminist economists abroad to help us...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 20, 2022 | Intervention
What Does Increasing the Participation of Women in the Economy Mean? Devaka Gunawardena Experts keen to endorse the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) tentative programme for Sri Lanka have attempted to highlight the supposedly progressive aspects of its intervention...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Jun 1, 2022 | Intervention
What is this Crisis? Ahilan Kadirgamar Dr. Ahilan Kadirgamar made this presentation at an online discussion on the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, organised by the Kuppi Collective on April 26, 2022. It was transcribed by Treshan Fernando and edited for...
by ssa-admin-032024 | May 24, 2022 | Intervention
The IMF in Debt Restructuring, the Resurgence of Austerity, and the Urgency of Fiscal Justice Bhumika Muchhala As Sri Lanka officially defaults on its sovereign debt repayments, and enters negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for access to loans in return...
by ssa-admin-032024 | Apr 26, 2022 | Intervention
The Argentinian (2001) and Sri Lankan (2022) Financial Crises: Ways Forward from a Feminist PerspectiveCorina Rodriguez In response to Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, and the consensus across the political spectrum and even social classes that an International...
