‘The Writing Was on The Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka – Jayati Ghosh

‘The Writing Was on The Wall’: Debt Distress and Ways Forward in Sri Lanka – Jayati Ghosh In the fourth in a series of talks organised by Polity magazine of the Social Scientists’ Association and the Women and Media Collective with feminist economists abroad to help us in Sri Lanka think through this economic crisis that we inhabit, and how best to respond to it in ways that take forward or at least protect the interests of classes and groups that are most marginalised, Professor Jayati Ghosh  spoke from New Delhi on 29…

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22nd Amendment and the determination of the Supreme Court.

22nd Amendment and the determination of the Supreme Court.   The Island 13th 14th &15th of September. Three-part article.  Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne,President’s Counsel  Part I: Removal of the PM The Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution Bill (22A) was showcased by the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa Government as a restoration of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution (19A) of 2015. Most 19A provisions were removed by the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution. Many, including the writer, have pointed out that not all the provisions of 19A are sought to be introduced by 22A. The…

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