Cold War Ceylon – The Sri Lankan Economy – EP03 [Sinhala & Tamil CC] - Patta History

Sri Lanka keeps opening and closing the economy with every regime change. But this volatile time ends in one of the bloodiest assassinations of a President in living memory. How did we get the economy we did today? Chapters 0:00 Cold Open 0:49 Intro 1:00 Previously on Patta History 1:34 Rubber Rice Pact 2:00 The Battle Act 3:25 1953 Hartal 3:41 Nationalization: Enter SWRD 4:31 Comparing GDP 5:48 Enter Sirimavo 6:27 Sirimavo's Idealogy 6:58 Protected Capitalists 07:28 State Corporations 08:46 Petroleum Industry 09:56 Liberalization: Enter Dudley 12:47 Nationalization 2: Electric Bugaloo - Sirimavo 14:30 State Industrial Corporation Act 17:00 JVP Insurgency 18:08 Enter JR 18:49 The JR Formula 20:08 LTTE & Executive Presidency 20:57 Liberalization 2: Electric Bugaloo - JR 22:12 P1 - Accelerated Mahaweli Development Program 22:56 P2 - EPZs - North of Colombo 24:34 P3 - Gam Udawa 25:01 P4 - New Parliament & Prevention of Terrorism Act 25:28 JR 2 - SL State vs LTTE 27:44 Premadasa 28:38 Fatal Miscalculation 30:04 1990s - The Decade of Exports 31:53 May Day 1993 32:22 Outro Sources: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I605... Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and press the bell button to stay notified of new episodes! You can help us keep making stories by becoming a contributing member to our Patreon   / pattahistory   or email us to know more ways you can support us! © P H Media 2024. No part of this video may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright holder.