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Sri Lanka’s road to collapse and its institutional dilemma
There can be no meaningful policy reforms and change for the better on the island without fundamental institutional change that will usher in a new elite and flush out the old one.
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Protesters at an anti-government rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Oct 27.
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Razeen Sally
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This year, Sri Lanka is in the news for all the wrong reasons. This time, it is not about ethnic conflict and civil war, rather a sudden economic collapse,
For me, this catastrophe is personal. I am half-Sri Lankan. Colombo, the capital, is my home town.
