About Us
TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE SRI LANKA
IPE seeks to promote policies that centre people and the environment through economic, political and social reforms to sustain social well-being, ecological sensitivity and egalitarian politics, whilst mitigating against major excesses of an unjust global socio-economic order.
ABOUT IPE
Institute of Political Economy (IPE), Sri Lanka, is a network of progressive global academics, economists and professionals, engaged in research, teaching and dissemination of critical analyses of economic policy and development. It studies the relationship between Sri Lanka’s population and its government when public policy is enacted in a turbulent global economy in a bid to stimulate debate and discussion. The IPE is inspired by the work of the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs).
IPE consists of volunteers, who are motivated by the need to seek viable alternatives to the current mainstream economy driven and dominated by countries of the Global North and entrenched vested interests in Sri Lanka. The IPE is a virtual organisation and we as a collective, is open to all those committed to developing alternatives to protect Sri Lanka from the excesses of the Global economic order to overcome contemporary development challenges.
There is a dire need to develop critiques of the mainstream policies and think tanks in Sri Lanka. IPE is committed to deliberating, probing and interrogating the current inequitable status quo; we want to ask pertinent questions. Our aspiration is to develop collaboratively and draw on expertise, which reflect global debates seeking to advocate for system change. We acknowledge existing inequities with the aim of collectively shifting economic processes in a progressive, egalitarian and democratic direction.
The objectives of IPE hence is:
- Provide a platform where progressive policies and ideas can be discussed freely & independently
- Challenge the global neoliberal economic model and raise awareness of its harmful consequences
- Provide people-centric alternative policy solutions supported by evidence and experts worldwide
- Inform and educate policymakers, the public, business, & civil society
- Encourage public debate and facilitate exchanges of ideas
- Monitor and evaluate the effects of policies and government programs
- Align with international organisations
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