National Blueprint · One of 195
An island of 21.8 million that restructured its debts, has drawn $2.4 billion from the IMF since 2023, and keeps nine in ten of its children in school.
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Where Sri Lankans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Sri Lanka: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.
Become a Co-designerDesign Studio · Work with Perfect Nations
Every mandate makes the same four moves for Sri Lanka. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.
A private session for the people who decide.
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
Led personally by the President and CEO.
For the Government of Sri Lanka, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
A golden lion holding a sword, framed by four leaves of the bo tree. Nine in ten of your children complete lower-secondary school, and you have climbed out of default faster than almost anyone expected.
“You climbed out of default faster than anyone expected. Now let every Sri Lankan kitchen cook with clean fuel.”
Dispatches
Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Sri Lanka, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Kavinda Perera, Nation Steward of Sri Lanka.
All dispatchesDispatches appear here as soon as they are published.
Design Studio · Writings
An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Sri Lanka and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.
Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Sri Lanka closer to Perfect Capita.
20 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.
The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.
Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.
Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped.
Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.
What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Sri Lanka toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.
Sovereign AssetsDesign Studio · Perfect Capita
The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Sri Lanka at 31, by energy, with livelihood at 46.7 and water at 46.9 next.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Sri Lanka. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
The Research · Capital Architecture
The record in figures
The register
About $2.4 billion disbursed; about $695 million released in May 2026
Staff agreed the seventh review in October 2026.
International Monetary Fund
SourceEmergency balance-of-payments support
Fast support after the disaster of late 2025.
International Monetary Fund
SourceBudget support for reforms
Backs the reforms that move Sri Lanka from stabilisation to growth.
World Bank
SourceRoads that withstand floods and landslides
Keeps communities connected through the monsoon.
World Bank
Source
Kavinda PereraNation Steward of Sri Lanka · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.
Design Studio · Enterprises
The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Sri Lanka. Suggest one to include.
Suggest an enterpriseDesign Studio · Voices of Sri Lanka
Launching soon“What does Sri Lanka already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
We are looking for the people with real stories from Sri Lanka: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.
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Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.
