Kanchana Ruwanpura, Author at Institute of Political Economy

Grounding Economic Policies in Tumultuous Times

Rethinking the Indebted Sri Lankan Economy We live in volatile times, unprecedented by many accounts. For highly indebted countries like Sri Lanka, navigating this instability by assuming we turn to old rulebooks may be folly, especially as almost the entire world faces Trump’s tariffs. Sri Lanka needs to address the structural inequities and conditions […]

Gendering the debt crisis: Feminists on Sri Lanka’s financial crisis

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Backdrop Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television screens, social media, and newspapers. Carers with young children, mothers with new-borns leaving them with equally young children while they stood in queue for gas or kerosene, children doing their homework on tuk-tuks while their parents got in line for

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