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Says economy could contract 7-pct in 2022
- Sri Lanka’s total debt burden Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022 (Category: Breaking News)
- Once the Parliament approves IMF agreement, the main points will be passed into law – Sri Lanka ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez vows to reform loss-making state enterprises, implement new tax regime (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives financial assurance letter from China (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s total debt burden increased to Rs 21.6 trillion by March 2022, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today. He said that Sri Lanka needs to pay $3.4 billion between June and December this year, $5.8 billion in 2023, $4.9 billion in 2024, $6.2 billion in 2025, $4.0 billion in 2026 and $4.3 billion […]
- Sri Lanka Prime Minister’s full statement on IMF negotiations (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives financial assurance letter from China (Category: Breaking News)
- President seeks opposition support to implement IMF deal (Category: Breaking News)
- President blames Sajith for crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Elon Musk To Rescue Sri Lanka From IMF Debt Bondage? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Paris Club, Dollar Debt Colonialism & Asia’s New “Donors”: Reforming The International Aid A... (Category: Breaking News)
- Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Make The Economy Scream’: Whither The Asian 21st Century? (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post What Can Ranil Get Done? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- RW Vs. GR: Who Will Outwit Whom? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil: A SWOT Appraisal (Category: Breaking News)
- Hold Elections & Avert A Dual-Power Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Has The Monetary Board Failed The Nation? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: How Colonial Ceylon Did It? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War (Category: Breaking News)
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Covid-19: The Epidemic & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
A number of articles which appeared in print media in the recent past signify the volatility in the economy. High volatility leads to vulnerability. Volatility and vulnerability are reflections of the haphazard nature of the economic policies and poor economic governance in a country. What is volatility? Volatility is the severity and the frequency with ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
The first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote 75 years ago: “It would be absurd to say that the profit motive does not appeal to the average Indian, but it is nevertheless true that there is no such admiration for it in India as there is in the west. The possessor of ...
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- The rise of State capitalism: new masters of the universe or an ominous portent? (Category: Business)
- Impunity: Unequal before the law (Category: Business)
As opposed to a 10-place jump in the previous year, Sri Lanka has suffered a 16-place relegation in the latest Global Competitiveness Rankings list released by the influential World Economic Forum (WEF) yesterday. Sri Lanka’s rank of 68th place out of 144 countries surveyed from 52nd place in the previous year was despite the overall ...
- Sri Lanka in great leap forward (Category: Breaking News)
- BIG LEAP FOR SRI LANKA IN WEF REPORT (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka can be a top 30 country by 2015 (Category: Business)
- Competing for FDI: An agenda for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
By Shamil Samsul Mueen 1. Introduction The global financial crisis has raised imperative issues concerning the stability and reliability of existing financial systems. This has driven an extensive global re-examination on the competence of the existing financial architecture and the search for a more enduring solution. As a result an increasing interest in Islamic finance ...
- HNB launches Al-Najah Islamic banking unit (Category: Business)
- Islamic finance: Challenges and opportunities (Category: Business)
- Islamic banking and finance advisory services to assist financial institutions (Category: Business)
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Setting its sights on placing Sri Lanka in the global economy and expanding its reach in overseas markets, the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2012, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce’s annual flagship event, aptly themed ‘Positioning Sri Lanka in the Global Economy,’ commenced last evening at the Cinnamon Grand. In the context of ...
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
- Young political guns speak up for economy (Category: Business)
- Ceylon Chamber spearheaded repositioning post-war Sri Lanka forum kicks off today (Category: Business)
- Sustainability in volatility: The bankers’ challenge (Category: Business)
After 11 years of making US higher education popular across the tiny island nation in Indian Ocean Scholarships for USA (Pvt) Ltd (www.scholarshipsforusa.com) has commenced promoting Sri Lanka as one of the most viable Study Abroad destinations for its numerous partners in US. SUSA believes the traffic needs to be both ways and there’s much ...
- Scholarships for USA team visits Augustana College in Illinois (Category: Business)
- Scholarships team welcomed by Study Illinois (Category: Business)
- US’ Tusculum College looks forward to positive engagement Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Education abroad: Making the right choice (Category: Business)
The Oxford Dictionary tells us that being ‘happy’ is being cheerful with feelings of pleasure or satisfaction. ‘Satisfaction’ is, in turn, when you are pleased because you have achieved something or because something has happened as you wanted it to. A synonym is being ‘content’ – being happy and satisfied with what you have. Rulers ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Transforming education in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s new development tagline Sri Lanka’s current development tagline has been to make it the ‘Emerging Wonder of Asia’ as originally enunciated in the ‘Mahinda Chinthana: Vision for the Future’ and reaffirmed in both the Development Policy Framework of the Government issued in 2010 and the Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance and ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Treasury Secy. showcases recent economic success and future outlook (Category: Business)
By Saman Kelegama New deal from Busan? The 4th High Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan which took place during 29 November to 1 December 2011 came out with a New Deal for Engagement of Fragile States – a somewhat novel document of aid architecture that provides fragile states a stronger role in ...
- TI calls on all donors to sign up to aid transparency standard (Category: Business)
- Accountability, transparency key to inclusive growth in Asia (Category: Business)
- China, India score with untied aid (Category: Business)
- UN’s development goals are under threat as aid shrinks (Category: Business)
Following are some responses from three economists to the guest column by Chandra Jayaratne titled ‘Important issues’ for Sri Lankan legislators, the Executive, policymakers, Central Bankers, economists and thought leaders to ponder over published on 2 February 1) I disagree with the Stiglitz-Krugman line. My diagnosis is that Europe is in this mess for two ...
- Important issues (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Asian economies: Managing spillovers and advancing economic rebalancing (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s economy stands to gain from a stronger Europe: German Envoy (Category: Business)
The Visible Hand of the government ‘The Visible Hand’ was the title which the famed London-based economics weekly, The Economist, used when it published a special report in its issue on 21 January 2012 on the rise of state capitalism in the modern era. The title has a pun
- Target 2048 – Economic Democracy Principles Should Be Followed To The Letter (Category: Breaking News)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- A monetary constitution to add on to the legal constitution? (Category: Business)
Following is the keynote address delivered by Senior Minister of Human Resources D.E.W. Gunasekera at the South Asian Regional Consultative Seminar on Human Development and Measurement of Human Development Progress, held at the IPS Auditorium from 30-31 January 2012 Public understanding of human development was galvanised by the appearance of the first Human Development Report ...
- 2011: Power achievements for Sri Lanka, but… (Category: Business)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- Top Sri Lanka Ports, Trade & Logistics conference and expo starts (Category: Business)
- More and better jobs: Policy prescription for South Asia (Category: Business)
By Sarath de Alwis Tracing my roots to traditional marketing times in aviation and tourism, I am awed by the enormous potential of modern technologies that bring new frontiers to our doorstep; drop new vistas virtually on our laptops. Then I am appalled to see what unfolds. Global opportunities are whisked away from our grasp ...
- More SriLankan flights to Chennai and Karachi (Category: Business)
- India calling (Category: Business)
- Robust exports to get boost via Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
- Fair winds for Sri Lanka maritime hub (Category: Business)
Below is an interview with Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleke published in the French Diplomatic Review – La Lettre Diplomatique (The Diplomatic Letter) Two years after the end of a three decades conflict, the lifting of the emergency rule in late August 2011 confirmed the beginning of a new era for Sri Lanka. With the recent discovery of ...
- France assures assistance to restructure Sri Lanka’s debt (Category: Breaking News)
- French President Emmanuel Macron pledges strong support for debt restructuring in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- France continues support for Sri Lanka’s renewable energy plans (Category: Breaking News)
We are still stuck in the winter of our discontent! By Jude Fernando Groundviews.org: “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organisations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against ...
- Exercising civic responsibilities (Category: Business)
- Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Sixth (Mis)adventure: An Indisputable Reason For The ‘Aragalaya’ To Stay ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Making Sri Lanka a ‘democratic hub’ for ‘Wonder of Asia’ (Category: Business)
By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’. The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...
- TN moves resolution to implead itself in Katchatheevu case (Category: Breaking News)
- TN seeks economic sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN group violently opposes Lions Flag (Category: Breaking News)
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