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President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament today that he will continue with his unpopular decisions. Making his throne speech, Wickremesinghe said that he is not here to be popular. He said that the unpopular decisions he takes will have positive results in the years to come. The President said that Sri Lanka expects to recover from […]
Economics primarily drive politics and this principle applies to Sri Lanka’s relations with almost the entirety of the world’s regions. The fact that economic interdependence is compelling this country to break new ground in its ties with the Middle East bears this out fully. Over the decades, Sri
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I am pleasantly surprised and marvel too most times I read the editorial in The Island. Why? Because they are so very apt on the most current issue in the land. The editor has the clever knack of hitting the nail right on the head and is fearless even when the nail represents a VVIP. […]
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Electricity subsidies, surcharges, and rooftop solar units: by Dr Tilak Siyambalapitiya The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) altered the CEB’s proposed prices and price structure, then amended its own proposal, and announced higher electricity prices, to be effective from 10 August 2022. Neither the CEB nor the PUCSL presented, to customers, the actual […]
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by Chandre Dharmawardana, chandre.dharma@yahoo.ca. The forex crisis had forced the government to jettison its initial set of economic managers of the Central bank who looked for home-grown solutions and opposed dealing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The President re-instated a set of managers whose ideas were more orthodox and aligned with the neo-liberal bankers […]
Developments in Sri Lanka underline the risk of destabilising social and labour unrest throughout Asia-Pacific because of rising living costs impacting the region, S&P Global Market Intelligence said. Countries with similarly weak economic fundamentals and/ or poor economic policies have reduced resilience to external shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, high oil...
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London [UK], June 24 (ANI): The Democratic Forum (TDF) during a seminar discussed the politicisation of water and referred to the need for China to take responsibility for developing a more consensual approach to water in the Himalayan region. “China refuses to participate in multilateral forums surrounding transport boundary water use; instead, it negotiates through […]
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[…]The post Causes Of Economic Crisis In Sri Lanka & Lessons For A New Age appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…]The post Masks Of Democracy & Energy Geopolitics: Is Full Spectrum Dominance The Endgame? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
22-04-2022, Amsterdam: In the latest series of EFSAS interviews, Mr. Junaid Qureshi (Director EFSAS) welcomed virtually Professor Mick Moore, a highly regarded political economist and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He is also the founding CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development and was appointed […]
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
[…] The post An Uncharted Global Future Commences In 2021: How & How Much Will The World Change? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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 ...
Former top civil servant Dr. Prathap Ramanujam has been appointed to the Board of Senkadagala Finance Plc as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1 September 2012. Dr. Ramanujam retired after 38 years of distinguished service in the public sector. He was the Permanent Secretary to several key Ministries including Tourism, Livestock Development and ...
Human rights Human rights are on the top of agenda today. Nations accuse each other of violations of human rights of themselves and others. Rights are generally violated during conflicts and wars as the strength of the weapon supersedes peace over and stability and rule of law. There is no shortage of conflicts in most ...
An important feature of the recent Sri Lanka Economic Summit, which both the Guest Speaker Gurcharan Das, Author, Columnist and Management Consultant and Keynote Speaker Dr. Kalpana Kochar, Chief Economist – South Asia of the World Bank, referred to were the opportunities presented to Sri Lanka by the ongoing process of globalisation and particularly the ...
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 ...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week announced global traffic results for March showing that total passenger demand rose 7.6% and freight demand climbed 0.3% compared to the same month last year. Comparisons with March last year are affected by events that depressed passenger demand in 2011, including the Arab Spring, which disrupted travel ...
Institute of Supply and Materials Management (ISMM) held its Annual General Meeting along with the Technical sessions on 31 March at the Auditorium of Organisation of Professional Association. At the AGM, President Danesha Perera was re-elected unanimously the term 2012/13 and was inducted. New Management of Council Members were also elected. Perera is well known ...