A new constitution for Sri Lanka; a misplaced priority The original article was published in the Asian Tribune on the 18th of January 2016 By Raj Gonsalkorale Sri Lanka seems destined to engage in yet another mix up of priorities. Since independence in 1948, the country has been grappling with constitutions or major changes to administrative regulations and not economic priorities. The result has been that a country that was more economically advanced at one time than subsequent Tiger economies like Singapore and Malaysia, has sled back to where it was decades ago. Sri Lanka could refer to two periods when an economic resurgence gave hope to a brighter future for its current and future generations. That was the liberalization of the economy and the initiation of giant projects like the Mahaveli development project in 1977 under President J R Jayewardene, and in 2009/10, soon after the defeat of the ...

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