{"id":101285,"date":"2020-04-18T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101285"},"modified":"2020-04-18T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T23:04:05","slug":"pathfinder-sets-up-eminent-panel-to-prepare-post-covid-19-economic-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/18\/pathfinder-sets-up-eminent-panel-to-prepare-post-covid-19-economic-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pathfinder sets up eminent panel to prepare post-COVID-19 economic strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>This is very dangerous. These people\nare known to align with a certain political ideology that in my view is not in\nthe best interests of SL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moragoda was the foreign minister\nunder Ranil&#8217;s 2001 to 2004 regime that is known to be the most treacherous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They presented a National Security\nStrategy for Sri Lanka 2020 and a Study on Managing Foreign Policy and\nRelations with the UN System to President Rajapaksa. Any such policy must be\nwidely discussed. A policy created by a small group of people who don&#8217;t even\nrepresent SL is not valid.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is going on behind the scenes?\nWhy weren&#8217;t these presented to media? I smell a rotten rat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pathfinder Foundation has set up\na study group chaired by Pathfinder Senior Fellow and former Central Bank\nGovernor Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, to prepare a set of action-oriented\nrecommendations aimed at steering the Sri Lankan economy into the post-COVID-19\nera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\nto President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the end of April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other\nmembers of the Study Group, which will consist of twenty leaders from academia,\nresearch and the private sector, include Prof. Sirimal Abeyratne, Prof. Saroj\nJayasinghe, Prof. Rohan Samarajiva, Prof. Muttukrishna Sarvanthan, Ashroff\nOmar, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Krishan Balendra and Mohamed Mushin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently the\nPathfinder Foundation was responsible for preparing 1) a National Security\nStrategy for Sri Lanka 2020 and 2) a Study on Managing Foreign Policy and\nRelations with the UN System. Both of which were presented to President\nRajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.lk\/news\/Pathfinder-sets-up-eminent-panel-to-prepare-post-COVID-19-economic-strategy\/56-698834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pathfinder sets up eminent panel to prepare post-COVID-19\neconomic strategy | Daily FT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara This is very dangerous. These people are known to align with a certain political ideology that in my view is not in the best interests of SL. Moragoda was the foreign minister under Ranil&#8217;s 2001 to 2004 regime that is known to be the most treacherous. They presented a National Security Strategy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101285","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=101285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}