Our Vision

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AN EQUITABLE SRI LANKA

To promote policies that centre people and the environment through economic, political and social reforms to sustain social well-being, ecological sensitivity, egalitarian politics and community cohesion, whilst mitigating against major excesses of an unjust global socio-economic order

Reward work, not wealth

Perspectives

Acknowledge imperfections of global economic order and mitigate risks to local economy by protecting against major vulnerabilities

Challenge status-quo and select alternative policy options for improving well-being of people and environment

Working women bear a disproportionate burden of the debt crisis.  They should not pay for the profligacy of reckless creditors.

Critical Questions for Sri Lanka

Reaching a common consensus between business leaders, public and private sector workers, and politicians. 

Results of governments 3-yearly income survey of 25,000 households <br>(median monthly income: household Rs 53,000; per capita Rs 14,000)

  • What is the minimum quality of life that should be enjoyed by all hardworking citizens of Sri Lanka?
  • What basic income level and minimum services should be provided by the state for the disabled, sick and old?
  • How can the natural and human resources of the country be directly utilised to maximise people’s well-being?
  • What policies should be promoted and engendered to protect the interests of  people as the current global economic order is unequal?
  • What key value-added export sectors should be developed to afford imports of essential commodities that cannot be produced locally?
  • How can Sri Lanka thrive in a sustainable manner when all nations cannot theoretically be net exporters? 

Ideas shape the course of history

John Maynard Keynes