{"id":101181,"date":"2020-04-15T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101181"},"modified":"2020-04-15T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:03:06","slug":"pathfinder-sets-up-eminent-panel-to-prepare-post-covid-economic-strategy-for-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/15\/pathfinder-sets-up-eminent-panel-to-prepare-post-covid-economic-strategy-for-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder sets up eminent panel to prepare post-COVID Economic Strategy for Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Gamini Sarath Godakanda<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Pathfinder Foundation has set up a study group chaired by\nPathfinder Senior Fellow and former Central Bank Governor, Dr. Indrajit\nCoomaraswamy to prepare a set of action-oriented recommendations aimed at\nsteering the Sri Lankan economy into the post-COVID-19 era. Dr. Sisira\nPinnawala, Department of Sociology University of Peradeniya and Dr. Ganeshan\nWiganaraja, Executive Director, Lakshsman Kadirgamar Institute will serve as\nprincipal authors for this initiative. The report is expected to be presented to\nPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa before the end of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other members of the\nStudy Group, which will consist of twenty leaders from academia, research and\nthe private sector, include Prof. Sirimal Abeyratne, Prof. Saroj Jayasinghe,\nProf. Rohan Samarajiva, Prof. Muttukrishna, Sarvanthan, Mr. Ashroff Omar, Dr.\nHans Wijayasuriya, Mr. Krishan Balendra, Mr. Mohamed Mushin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently,&nbsp; the Pathfinder Foundation was\nresponsible for preparing 1)&nbsp;<em>A National Security Strategy for Sri Lanka\n2020<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp; 2)&nbsp;<em>Study on Managing Foreign Policy and\nRelations with the UN System,&nbsp;<\/em>both of which were presented to\nPresident Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamini Sarath Godakanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamini Sarath Godakanda The Pathfinder Foundation has set up a study group chaired by Pathfinder Senior Fellow and former Central Bank Governor, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy to prepare a set of action-oriented recommendations aimed at steering the Sri Lankan economy into the post-COVID-19 era. Dr. Sisira Pinnawala, Department of Sociology University of Peradeniya and Dr. Ganeshan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}