State of the Nation | Episode - 22
Channel: Ada Derana English
Date: 12/02/2023

Can the President's vision take Sri Lanka to the promised land? What will the push by the IMF to implement austerity in Sri Lanka actually create? Has the Sri Lankan state accounted for the effects of these policies? 

Talk show host Mahieash Johnney speaks to Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York, Prof. Clara Mattei, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe, Opposition Parliamentarian Eran Wikramaratne of the Samagi Janabalawegaya, Parliamentarian from the breakaway SLPP faction Dr Nalaka Godahewa, Former Governor of the Central Bank Ajith Nivad Cabraal, & Senior Economist Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa. 

Original-on-air date - 12th February 2023