As part of Sri Lanka’s economic bailout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is telling us that we should increase women’s labour force participation. It is part of a recommendation about ‘growth-enhancing structural reforms’ including reducing youth unemployment, liberalising trade, developing a wide-reaching and coherent investment promotion strategy, and reforming price controls and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)… Continue reading No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour – Chulani Kodikara
Author: ssalanka
No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour – Chulani Kodikara
As part of Sri Lanka’s economic bailout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is telling us that we should increase women’s labour force participation. It is part of a recommendation about ‘growth-enhancing structural reforms’ including reducing youth unemployment, liberalising trade, developing a wide-reaching and coherent investment promotion strategy, and reforming price controls and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)… Continue reading No Magic Bullets on Women’s Waged Labour – Chulani Kodikara
Untitled – ‘Chitra’
The bedMade from wood of a tree, nurtured in the Vanni forestThe tree bears fruits, yellow, plump, small and sticky, very sweetHoney–filled flowers The old carpenter carved its legs and drew motifsThe sweet aroma and taste stem from the bed mixed with the scent of my child who sleeps on itI softly touch itAnd the finger tastes like manna.… Continue reading Untitled – ‘Chitra’
Polity Vol. 5 No. 5
Editorial Domestic Violence – The Rice Pot Boils Over The Punishment Is the Crime Ayodhya Verdict – Romila Thapar Appeal to Fellow Citizens If Term Limit Goes – So Must Immunity Whither Academic Freedom in Universities? – Savitri Goonesekere Susan De Silva: Feminist Rebel and Pioneer Leftist – Charles Wesley Ervin Mapping the Debate On… Continue reading Polity Vol. 5 No. 5
Nirmani Liyanage (2.2.1988-12.11.2022) – Nihal Perera
“To understand the community I am researching, i.e., the injustice and inequality its members are facing on a daily basis, I have to live among them, gain their trust and, through that trust, find ways to address the complex systematic forces and barriers that hold them down.” Nirmani Liyanage was an immensely talented and intellectually… Continue reading Nirmani Liyanage (2.2.1988-12.11.2022) – Nihal Perera
Resisting the Liberal Left’s Framing of the Economic Alternative – Shiran Illanperuma
SWRD Bandaranaike, Philip Gunawardena, DA Rajapaksa and others, at launch of Chandrika Wewa in 1958 In a recent intervention for Polity, Devaka Gunawardena argues that Sri Lanka’s Old Left failed to theorise the “agrarian question” and had a “narrow focus on industrialisation”, leading to their “junior participation” in the 1970 United Front Government and the… Continue reading Resisting the Liberal Left’s Framing of the Economic Alternative – Shiran Illanperuma
Statement by academics on dealing with Sri Lankan debt, January 2023
Sri Lanka, along with many other low- and middle-income countries, has experienced a series of financial shocks due to both external and internal factors. Global forces have caused food and energy import costs to soar and interest rates to rise, even as the currency has devalued significantly. These shocks, along with a history of policy… Continue reading Statement by academics on dealing with Sri Lankan debt, January 2023
Polity Vol. 2 No. 3
Editorial Post-Tsunami Recovery – Jayadeva Uyangoda After the Tsunami – Rajan Philips From Rehabilitation to Peace – Kristian Stokke and N. Shanmugaratnam The Spectre of a ‘Second Tsunami’ – N. Shanmugaratnam Earthquakes and Century Thinkers – Martin Kettle In Death, Imperialism Lives on – Jeremy Seabrook How to Tell a Story – Susan Llewelyn Leach… Continue reading Polity Vol. 2 No. 3
Polity Vol. 2 No. 2
Editorial Peace Watch – Jayadeva Uyangoda Re-Working Autonomy Options – Jayadeva Uyangoda Development and Peace – Sunil Bastian ICT 4 Peace – Harinda Ranura Vidanage Puritanism and Colonialism – Jeremy Tambling Honouring Pablo Neruda – Vibha Maurya and Vijaya Venkataraman Negotiating an Interim Authority – Godfrey Gunatilake Document 1 – EPDP Proposals for Peace Document… Continue reading Polity Vol. 2 No. 2
Polity Vol. 2 No. 1
Editorial Peace Watch – Jayadeva Uyangoda Darwin, Marx and Martin Wickramasinghe – Carlo Fonseka A Rising in the East – Malathi de Alwis Indian Elections – Rajan Philips Indian Elections: A Time to Be Hopeful – Rohini Hensman Peaceful Co-Existence as an Idea – Purushottam Agrawal Ronald Reagan: Illusions of Greatness – Rajan Philips Teaching… Continue reading Polity Vol. 2 No. 1