{"id":58,"date":"2012-02-21T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2015-07-15T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T03:47:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to \u2018Talking Economics\u2019, the blog of the <a href=\"www.ips.lk\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS)<\/a>, Sri Lanka\u2019s apex socio-economic policy think tank. This blog, started in late 2009, provides you with independent and authoritative insights across a range of contemporary and critical national, regional, and international economic policy issues, and contribute to &#8211; indeed help shape &#8211; the public debate around them. This blog, together with our related social media,\u00a0are helping to take our research insights to a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, policy research organisations find outreach a challenge. At IPS, we have embraced this challenge and have embarked on various strategies to better engage with you \u2013 whether you are a private sector champion, a leader in a public institution, an academic in a university, a business affairs journalist, a student, or a regular citizen interested in economic policy issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">We hope you actively engage with the insights contained on the blog &#8211; spread them widely, challenge them constructively, and use them for your own advocacy efforts. Comments are welcome and are encouraged. Check our website for more details on our <a href=\"..\/..\/research.html\">research programme<\/a> and our <a href=\"..\/..\/publications\/\">publications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talking Economics Team\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><strong><em>talkingeconomics@ips.lk, +94-11-2143100<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to \u2018Talking Economics\u2019, the blog of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS), Sri Lanka\u2019s apex socio-economic policy think tank. This blog, started in late 2009, provides you with independent and authoritative insights across a range of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ips.lk\/talkingeconomics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}