Sri Lanka's Reform Era: 5 Perspectives on Discipline & Digitalisation 📝

• Sri Lanka’s reform path has entered a disciplined phase, shifting focus from grand policies to rebuilding long-term systems based on financial credibility, discipline, and technological transparency. • IMF (Evan Papageorgiou): Focuses on structural reform, setting fiscal guardrails, and ensuring consistent implementation for debt sustainability and improved governance. • World Bank (David Sislen): Views reform through a systemic lens, linking development financing to governance outcomes and accountability, stating that "good governance is development infrastructure." • Discipline (Lee Kuan Yew): Offers a model based on predictability, administrative integrity, and long-term planning for consistent reform and institutional confidence. • Credibility (Arj Samarakoon): Argues that success hinges on trust. Reform requires consistency in law, accessibility in governance, and digital efficiency to secure investor confidence. • Digitalisation (Rohan Samarajiva): Advocates for digital transformation as core governance reform, using efficient data systems and interoperable platforms to enhance transparency and citizen trust.