Sri Lanka’s Investment Authority: Red Tape, Corruption, and the Investment Deception
Sri Lanka Investment Board: Navigating Bureaucracy, Corruption, and the Investment Dilemma (October 21, 2025) Sri Lanka, which desperately needs foreign investment to recover from its financial struggles, has unfortunately developed one of the least welcoming bureaucracies for investors in South Asia. The Board of Investment (BOI), meant to serve as a streamlined point of contact […]
How Sri Lanka’s Attempt at Modern Monetary Theory Went Horribly Sideways
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Editors’ Note: One of the first major book reviews undertaken at the Prickly Pear, was a critical assessment of Modern Monetary Theory, which we found not really modern and hardly a theory. It is just a clever academic excuse for the old principle of the government paying for its expenses […]