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Unprecedented Shocks Rattle South Asia, Exacerbating Challenges and Dampening Growth
Beset with Sri Lanka’s economic crisis, Pakistan’s catastrophic floods, a global slowdown, and impacts of the war in Ukraine, South Asia faces an unprecedented...
MV X-Press Pearl: A Conundrum of Maritime Jurisdiction
Authors: Harsh Mahaseth and Niharika Goel*
When the MV X-Press Pearl cargo ship owned by a Singapore-based company caught fire near the Colombo harbour of...
Sri Lanka: Devastating crisis for children, a ‘cautionary tale’ for South Asia
Staple foods have become unaffordable, warned UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei on Friday, who pointed out that severe malnutrition in crisis-wracked...
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis pushes health system to brink of collapse
Sri Lanka is in the midst of the worst socio-economic crisis in its history, and the once robust health-care system is nearing collapse, with...
Crisis in Sri Lanka and The India-South Asia Challenges: Way Forward
Authors: Dr Aditya Anshu and Nipun Tyagi*
Lot of articles and theories which are describing the current state of Sri Lanka and major factors that...
Wickremesinghe will not solve the political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka without meaningful reforms
Celebrations in Sri Lanka have quickly evaporated with the election of Ranil Wickremesinghe as president. Instead, the economic crisis shows no sign of abating...
South Asian Economic Chaos: It’s High Time Rising Above Geopolitics
To depict the overwhelming hunger and economic distress of the Indian subcontinent in the wake of the Second World War, 20th-century Bengali-Indian poet, Sukanta...
Should Bangladesh Obtain Membership at the Colombo Security Conclave?
The Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) is a maritime security grouping initiated by India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 2011. The sixth meeting of national...
UN: Ensure peaceful and constitutional transfer of power in Sri Lanka
The head of the UN Country Team in Sri Lanka has urged senior politicians to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in line with...
Sri Lanka’s misery should be warning to us all on global food, fuel and finance crisis
Countries already under pressure from the economic fall-out of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk seeing the same economic turmoil and human misery as Sri Lanka,...