Sri Lanka: Election Could Jeopardise Hard-Earned Economic Gains, but Hopefully Won't
Communist JVP's Dissanayake has 48% support in last poll, substituting SLPP. Unless electoral outcome differs, SL's IMF program would be...
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Sri Lanka's Sovereign Default: Painful Structural Reform Needed
Public debt is 119% of GDP, and the primary balance 8%ofGDP away from from sustainability. A new government must undertake painful structural...
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Sri Lanka: Closer to Being Asia's Argentina Despite Swaps from PRC's Poisoned Chalice
Sri Lanka's public debt is 100% of GDP, & 2021 primary fiscal deficit 4% of GDP. External debt is 440% of goods exports, foreign reserves are...
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The Week that Was in ASEAN@Smartkarma - Singapore's Election, Thai Hospitals, and Rubber Gloves
This past week's offering of Insights across ASEAN@Smartkarma is filled with another eclectic mix of differentiated, substantive and actionable...
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Sri Lanka: Struggling to Avert Being The "Next Argentina" Amid Unsustainable Debt
Sri Lanka's external debt was 440% of its goods exports and 270% of its goods & services exports at end-2019 (unsustainable based on the IMF-WB...
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