Topic: Economic crisis
Global growth forecast to slow to 1.9% in 2023, warn UN economists
Senior UN economists warned on Wednesday that intersecting crises are likely to add further damage to the global economy, with growth set to slow from three per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent this year.
Sri Lanka: protests spread as petrol prices rise by 90%
Jayanthi Lingham, University of Warwick
Sri Lanka is currently experiencing a profound economic crisis, sparking massive protests around the country. The protests are happening against...
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is a chance to reinvent international bailouts so that citizens don’t take most of the pain
Sayantan Ghosal, University of Glasgow and Dania Thomas, University of Glasgow
Sri Lanka recorded the first casualties from its spiralling economic crisis several days ago,...