Sri Lanka’s economy marches slowly into 2017 (Dushni Weerakoon, East Asia Forum)

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/12/22/sri-lankas-economy-marches-slowly-into-2017/

Breaking Sri Lanka’s economic gridlock (Dushni Weerakoon, East Asia Forum)

The Sri Lankan economy appears to exist in a system that can evolve only through crisis. Optimistic policymakers, predicting that the country’s economic trajectory would self-correct, received a collective wake-up call in February with a sovereign rating downgrade by Fitch, even as the country made a formal approach to the IMFfor a bailout package.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/03/15/breaking-sri-lankas-economic-gridlock/

Sri Lanka opens the door to economic reform (Dushni Weerakoon, East Asia Forum)

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/12/24/sri-lanka-opens-the-door-to-economic-reform/