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Feb 28, 2025

One-Text Initiative Hosts Sri Lanka’s Budget Discussion Highlighting Economic Challenges and Reforms

A high-level closed-door discussion on Sri Lanka’s 2025 budget took place at Solis Hotel, Pitakotte, with economic experts, policymakers, and parliamentarians dissecting the proposed fiscal plan and...

By One Text Initiative

Jul 25, 2023

The Dilemma of the socio-political Paradigm of a Patrimonial State

Clientelism has deeply shaped Sri Lanka’s political and socio-economic landscape, concentrating power and resources among a few while reinforcing long-standing patterns of dependency and inequality.

By Pradeep Ranaweera.