{"id":146837,"date":"2025-09-19T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146837\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:55:13","slug":"sri-lankas-leftist-leader-ditches-dogma-for-economic-pragmatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/146837\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s leftist leader ditches dogma for economic pragmatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20250917 PA Sri Lanka Dissanayake\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, speaking\u00a0during this year&#8217;s May Day rally, has defied the opposition&#8217;s doomsday predictions during his first year in office, but faces questions about progress on structural reforms and tackling poverty. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/policy-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">President Dissanayake embraces private sector to stay on track with IMF bailout<\/p>\n<p>MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR<\/p>\n<p>September 19, 2025 06:00 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, speaking\u00a0during this year&#8217;s May Day rally, has defied the opposition&#8217;s doomsday predictions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,67625,28034,12685,1294,67623,15417,67624,67626,14215,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-146837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ditches","10":"tag-dogma","11":"tag-economic","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-lankas","14":"tag-leader","15":"tag-leftist","16":"tag-pragmatism","17":"tag-sri","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}