Videos
IPE in the Media
Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana
Economist
A People’s Budget.
Newsfirst, 17 Feb 2025
Charith Gunawardena
Co-Founder, Institute for Political Economy
Did we get a raw deal?
Newsfirst: 12 Feb 2025
Kanchana N Ruwanpura
Co-Founder, Institute of Political Economy
Seize the Moment Now.
The People’s Platform, 7 Feb 2025
Charith Gunawardena
Co-Founder, Institute for Political Economy
Can IMF fix Sri Lanka’s broken economy?
Ada Derana: 15 April 2024
Dhanusha Gihan Pathirana
Economist
The truth about the economy.
The People’s Platform, 15 April 2024
Thiruni Kelegama
Lecturer, University of Oxford
The Politics of Development.
The People’s Platform, 22 Sept 2023
IPE : Webinar and Media Engagement
Alternative perspectives.
- “Global debt system has no independent mechanism for debt reduction in effective fair way.”
- “The IMF and Worldbank have been powerfully repurposed to shape the global economy to help corporations and the rich nations.”
- “The G20 common framework is inadequate and does not provide a comprehensive, fair or rapid debt resolution framework.”
- “Sri Lanka today is a perfect example, of how not to deal with an external debt crisis”
- “The IMF solution is not just inadequate it exacerbates to problems original cause”.
- “The domestic oligarchy, for years and years have been taking on foreign debt to enrich itself at the expense of the majority”
- “The Central Bank Act is undermining the sovereignty of the country by transferring a lot of decision making to the IMF and by extension to the USA”.
- “There is no rationality for Sri Lanka to have domestic debt restructuring. It has made domestic debt now not risk free”
- “Privatisations are handing over strategic sectors to foreign companies”