{"id":120501,"date":"2021-11-21T17:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120501"},"modified":"2021-11-21T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:37:58","slug":"top-economist-hopes-other-policy-blunders-too-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/21\/top-economist-hopes-other-policy-blunders-too-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"Top economist hopes other policy blunders too, reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b class=\"news-publisher\">T.P. Lokuliyana<\/b> Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.ceylontoday.lk\/images\/2021\/11\/xgQM3ldiqohM3TDeWwkn0Py45QqHutp9.jpg\" alt=\"Top economist hopes other policy blunders too, reversed\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Top economist Dr. W.A. Wijewardena stresses the need for revisiting all public policies that have been made without due appraisal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former deputy governor of the Central Bank took to twitter welcoming the reversal of the chemical fertilizer ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026though it\u2019s welcome, it shows a grave deficiency in democratic economic policy governance; missing are consulting, flexibility, proper cost-benefit assessment, humility &amp; humbleness\u2026,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wijewardena said this is only one and there are many other blunders that have been committed with huge costs to society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hoped other policy blunders too, will be reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.P. Lokuliyana Courtesy Ceylon Today Top economist Dr. W.A. Wijewardena stresses the need for revisiting all public policies that have been made without due appraisal. The former deputy governor of the Central Bank took to twitter welcoming the reversal of the chemical fertilizer ban. \u2026though it\u2019s welcome, it shows a grave deficiency in democratic economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,176,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-chemical-fertilizer-ban","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120501","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=120501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}