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By Uditha Devapriya
Sumitra Peries passed away last Thursday, 19 January. One of the last…
By Kasun Thilina Kariyawasam
“The dollar is our currency, but it's your problem.”
John Connally, US Treasury Secretary, 1971
In the post-COVID global economy, Emerging Markets were hit with a…
By Dr Ranga Kalansooriya
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweeted his predictions for 2023 last month. He noted that “all the largest stock markets and financial activity will leave…
By Sachie Panawala
In its report in 2018, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) defined scientific literacy as an understanding of how…
By Vinod Moonesinghe
With the expansion of proselytizing Christian empires in the centuries before the second millennium, Christianity became a world religion.
As Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta said,
"When the missionaries…
By Chandani Kirinde
What prompted the US government to put in place a “Buddhist policy” in Southeast Asia during the Cold War and how successful were these clandestine efforts at…
By Kasun Thilina Kariyawasam
A total of USD 1,737.2 billion has been invested in the sovereign debt of emerging markets over the last 12 years. As a result of the…
By P. K. Balachandran
In a sharp turn towards authoritarianism and archaic religiosity, Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass, later in December, a new Criminal Code that will extend the…
By Shiran Illanperuma
Recent geopolitical and economic developments disrupting the US-led unipolar world order have renewed debate on the concept of imperialism.
In the post-war period, the term was politically…
By Sunil Abhayawardhane
While delivering his budget speech in parliament, President Ranil Wickremesinghe asked perhaps the most important question he could have: “Where did we go wrong?”
President Wickremesinghe asked…
By P. K. Balachandran
Set up in 1997, the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) is an inter-governmental organization aimed at strengthening regional cooperation and sustainable development in the Indian Ocean…
By Vinod Moonesinghe
The history of Palestine is fraught with controversy, obscured by religion. Emigration and conversion to Christianity and Islam reduced the Jewish population: by the 1516 Ottoman Conquest,…