December 2023
Reading Time: 2 min read The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) recently published a position paper titled ‘Sri Lanka’s Blue Economy’, which emphasises the importance of a sustainable approach to the marine-based economy, and outlines the necessary policy steps that the government must take to promote blue economic development.
September 2023
Reading Time: 18 min read LKI’s Dilmini Hasintha Abeyrathne examines debt restructuring in Ghana, Zambia and Sri Lanka and IMF financial assistance as lessons to countries in debt distress.
December 2022
Reading Time: < 1 min read The purpose of this Special Provisions draft Bill is to provide a legal framework to deal with marine pollution prevention in Sri Lanka. This draft Bill seeks to transform several IMO conventions relating to marine pollution into national legislation.
October 2022
Reading Time: 8 min read Alisha Rajaratnam examines the nature of Illegal, unreported & unregulated fishing (IUU), and considers Sri Lanka’s efforts in managing IUU fishing.
December 2020
Reading Time: 9 min read LKI’s interview with H.E. Haidari, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka, shared insights on the historic linkages between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan and the way forward on issues of shared interest and concern in South Asia.
July 2020
Reading Time: < 1 min read In this journal titled ‘Trade insight: COVID- 19 LDCs and South Asia’, LKI’s Ganeshan Wignaraja and Angela Huettemann discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sri Lanka.
June 2020
Reading Time: 5 min read LKI’s recent Spotlight interview with Ambassor Rakesh Sood, former Indian diplomat, columnist, and foreign affairs expert, on India’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and regional developments.
Reading Time: 5 min read LKI recently interviewed Professor Sirimal Abeyratne, Professor of Economics at the University of Colombo, and the current Chairman of the Monetary Policy Consultative Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, on Sri Lanka’s economy in the Covid- 19 era.
May 2020
Reading Time: < 1 min read LKI supported Pathfinder Foundation to prepare action-oriented recommendations on a post-COVID-19 Sri Lankan economy.
April 2020
Reading Time: < 1 min read LKI’s Angela Huettemann discusses the impact of and responses to the COVID- 19 spread in Sri Lanka, in a country brief for the Overseas Development Institute.
