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Ashique M. Ali Discusses Strategies to Unlock Opportunities and Drive Growth Beyond Sri Lanka

Walter Link has been working with companies and governments for over 30 years to make sustainable growth mainstream. He now says for businesses to aim for sustainability itself is no longer enough.

Sri Lanka’s foreign currency debt default and economic crisis have put banks under tremendous pressure. Our panel discusses the crisis and how Sri Lanka’s ambitious Colombo Port City might shape the industry’s future.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is shaking the foundations of its banks which now face challenges on multiple fronts

Echelon’s Reboot Everything festival featured a discussion on the role of the state in business, featuring Thilan Wijesinghe and Daniel Alphonsus

Pooled in to a closed-ended fund Romania’s loss making state enterprises have since staged a remarkable turnaround generating dividends and privatisation proceeds to their owners.

Economic mismanagement, including its liberal money printing, has landed Sri Lanka’s economy in difficulty. In this round table discussion, two economists share ideas about how Sri Lanka might begin to unwind the stimulus that has landed it in trouble.

Former Central Bank Deputy Governor Dr W A Wijewardena weighs in on the Central Bank versus Currency Board debate, explaining the Central Bank's descent into its current predicament and the evolution of the unfolding economic crisis today.

Sri Lanka has increased taxes after its tax revenue plunged to 8% of GDP in 2021. However, these measures don’t go nearly far enough to fix Sri Lanka’s public finances

Getting rid of pointless rules and regulations can help businesses emerge from the shadows and grow. Our experts discuss what needs to be done.

Due to interventions, Sri Lanka’s markets including ones for money, foreign exchange and commodities were distorted in 2021. Our panel of investment experts take on asset allocation in a chaotic economic climate.

Locked out of global financial markets and unable to rollover its foreign currency debt, Sri Lanka faces stark choices. One of those is to restructure its foreign currency debt.

Finance professionals came together to discuss how the accounting landscape is changing at Re:start21, one in a series of discussions organised in a collaboration of Economynext.com and Friedrich Naumann Foundation Sri Lanka office.

The future of telcos, according to Airtel Lanka's Chief Executive

Sarvodaya is Sri Lanka’s largest social movement. SDF, a Sarvodaya-backed development finance lender, is raising new capital to back a renewed drive to regenerate villages by linking them to markets

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The Chief Executive of clothing manufacturer Hela Clothing’s intimates business reflects on the pandemic’s impact and importance of aligning teams to a single vision

Joshua is the Managing Director and Chief Executive of Access Engineering Plc. He co-founded the Rs32 billion revenue listed company in the 1990s, building the firm in stages on the pillars of integrity and engineering excellence

Ahamed Aroos is a Director and Chief Executive Officer at Rainco, a homegrown manufacturing organisation transforming its industry amidst the unprecedented Covid storm. He had to confront the tough choices head on to ensure the wellbeing of stakeholders while securing the future of the company