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1 – 9 of 9According to the constitution, the next presidential election must take place in September-October 2024, but parliamentary polls are not due until 2025. Wickremesinghe is heavily…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB284210
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Separately, the IMF’s Executive Board on March 20 approved a four-year, roughly USD3bn Extended Fund Facility for the country. The approval came around ten months after Sri Lanka…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB278564
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who promised to deliver the amendment, assumed office in July amid a wave of protests that forced his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign. As…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB273767
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Some observers fear Nepal could soon end up in a full-blown economic crisis such as that now affecting Sri Lanka, which recently suspended external debt servicing. Kathmandu, like…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270224
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Colombo is seeking a bailout of up to USD4bn from the Fund to ease the foreign exchange (forex) crisis which prompted it to suspend external debt servicing earlier this month…
This is consistent with elements of the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government's economic policy that was finally released on July 29, four months after the party went…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB212915
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The manner of the UK move is not only damaging for the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP), but also has the potential to affect the wider EU-UK trading…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB260148
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The impasse has bedevilled the 115th Congress that is now in its ‘lame duck’ period after November 8’s midterm elections, already causing two government shutdowns this year.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB240667
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President Edgar Lungu and his Patriotic Front (PF) government are increasingly struggling to mobilise resources to meet repayments amid continued high public spending. Meanwhile…