Over the past two decades, Sri Lanka’s economic trajectory has been significantly shaped by assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Through a series of programs, the IMF has sought to ...

Sri Lanka finds itself at the heart of a geopolitical tug-of-war between China and India, with far-reaching implications across the Indo-Pacific region. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to ...

The Sri Lanka Development Update (SLDU) has two main aims. First, it reports on key developments over the past 12 months in Sri Lanka’s economy, places these in longer term and global contexts, and ...

Sri Lanka’s worsening economic crisis has erupted in recent days with the dramatic storming of the presidential palace, prompting the president and prime minister to offer their resignations and ...

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ordered $1 billion in compensation from the owners and local agents of the MV X-Press Pearl, which sank off Colombo in 2021, causing the worst maritime disaster in the ...

Tens of thousands of civilians died amid Sri Lanka’s defeat of separatists in 2009. Some Israeli military strategists see it as a campaign to be emulated. For many people around the world, the memory ...