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Call for Unity – By Oscar Fernando President’s Call for unity is a wise move in the face of the ongoing IMF deliberations that would bring enormous benefits to Sri Lanka-especially in the aftermath of a severe bankruptcy! One could ask why single out IMF among other donor countries? IMF does a fine-tooth comb analysis of the economy before aid is granted-how severe the analysis can be concluded by our failure sixteen times to be considered worthy of the aid-and if on this seventeenth time we fully succeed, it speaks well of the diplomacy of the present regime as deserving of an accolade to the previous regime that started the ball rolling-under a severe bankruptcy! This acceptance of Sri Lanka as worthy of IMF relief measures is a harbinger for the flow of FDIs as well as expatriates to come in to invest and churn the economy in the right ...