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[…]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 Delayed IMF Assistance & The Fertilizer Ban: President Rajapaksa’s “Two Mistakes” That Pauperized Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka on brink of food crisis after economic meltdown (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s president requests help from Indian, Chinese, Middle East envoys – PMD (Category: Breaking News)
- What The President Can Do Before He Goes (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Agripreneurs’ Forum recommends 10 proposals to overcome food crisis (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Lack Of Accountability, Ability & Credibility appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Concepts, Solutions & Actions (Category: Breaking News)
- President Must Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Trap, Lack Of Accountability & Blunders (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Politicians—Constitutional Amendment Mess (Category: Breaking News)
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 […]
- Sri Lanka state finances would improve with domestic domestic restructure: think tank (Category: Breaking News)
- China leaves crisis-ridden Sri Lanka in the lurch to fend for itself (Category: Breaking News)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- A Generational Shift To Face The Crisis In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Dawn At Galle Face: Which Tomorrow? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Janus Moment (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka In The Chalk Circle (Category: Breaking News)
- The End? (Category: Breaking News)
- From “Gota’s War” To War Against Gota; Aragalaya’s Historic Strike! (Category: Breaking News)
By Nisthar Cassim The world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company, Nestlé said last week Sri Lanka is a high growth market with strong upside in tandem with improving socioeconomic development aided by the end-of-war benefit. “We are experiencing double digit growth in Sri Lanka and see very positive prospects going forward. Our commitment to ...
- Creamier 2011 for Nestlé Lanka shareholders (Category: Business)
- Nestlé Worldwide Executive Vice President in town (Category: Business)
- Nestle Lanka ends 2011 with strong results (Category: Business)
- Rs. 1.1 b Nestle rice noodle plant to serve convenient-foods hungry Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Some countries make progress outside U.N. process Progress is slow towards new climate deal Shift needed from targets, penalties to standards CO2 emissions continue to grow LONDON/OSLO: Green economic growth rather than strict targets for cutting greenhouse gases needs higher priority if the world is to reach a deal to fight climate change by a ...
- Nations warn of broken promises at UN climate talks (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Shipowners join WWF, Oxfam in urging climate levy (Category: Business)
- No region immune to Europe crisis: World Bank Chief (Category: Business)
by Sarath De Alwis The crisis is not in our system of higher education. The crisis is in not knowing what higher education is. Arrogance of presumed superior knowledge of the policy makers and dogmatism of the teachers has precipitated a debate that reflects a pedantry of crisis proportions. We do not seem to have ...
- Friday Forum on crisis in the education sector (Category: Business)
- Say no to NEPF! Say no to abolishing free education! (Category: Breaking News)
- Free education and parents’ aspirations (Category: Business)
- "I dont like to use the term 'student supppression' simply because there is no such thing" (Category: Breaking News)
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)
BANGKOK (IPS): The just-ended United Nations sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro has exposed the discomfort that many developing Asian countries have over buzz words like ‘green economy’ and ‘green growth’ in development diplomacy. With the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the U.N. regional development arm, endorsing these concep...
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Green economy and impact on trade (Category: Business)
- More challenging global environment ahead for Asia Pacific region (Category: Business)
By Marianne David MP and consultant economist Dr. Harsha De Silva yesterday alleged that THE UNP’s criticism over the mismanagement of the economy and the Central Bank as well as the EPF’s investments in banking stocks have been emphatically validated by global rating agency Standard and Poor’s.“Standard and Poor’s reiterated what we have been saying ...
- Harsha claims Govt., CB lack credibility (Category: Business)
- UNP draws guns on “military control” of Rupee (Category: Business)
- S&P’s soother! (Category: Business)
INSEAD, the leading international business school, has partnered with leading TMT advisory and investment firm Delta Partners to release a joint white paper that defines core emerging markets, growth drivers as well as opportunities and challenges in the global telecommunications industry. At a time when Facebook is getting ready to IPO, its focus on emerging ...
- Global Information Technology Report: living in a hyperconnected world (Category: Business)
- Colombo to host GSMA mWomen Working Group meeting (Category: Business)
- Dialog extends deal with Cable&Wireless to provide managed services to customers (Category: Business)
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 ...
- 2011 ends on positive note for global aviation (Category: Business)
- Global aviation’s growth slows again in July: IATA (Category: Business)
- Global aviation demand growth slows, says IATA (Category: Business)
SINGAPORE (Reuters): Asia’s economic growth probably troughed in the first quarter but a bounce-back may be muted, a Reuters poll showed. Although the fear factor has faded over Europe’s debt crisis and a slowing U.S. economy, both will still be a drag on growth rates in the region. Respondents in a quarterly survey of over ...
- China can easily boost consumtion to strengthen its economy: IMF (Category: Business)
- Asia growth to slow in 2012, no China crash seen (Category: Business)
- Airbus sees China, Asia as recession buffer (Category: Business)
- ‘Pessimism’ over Asia-Pacific growth: survey (Category: Business)
In the time tested form of the parliamentary system of governance there is the concept of Cabinet Responsibility (Ministerial Responsibility) where ministers are said to be ‘collectively responsible’ for government policy. In Sri Lanka’s fast evolving constitutional form of government – particularly under President Mahinda Rajapaksa – the cabinet itself has become a tremendous joke .....
- Nawinna Gives Formula For Mervyn’s Success (Category: Breaking News)
- #SriLanka: New Cabinet takes oath in presence of President (Category: Breaking News)
- Ministers To See Stars (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka delays Cabinet swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
Despite a select few reporting highest-ever profits, the combined figure of 210 companies which have released their financials so far reveals a concerning trend. The cumulative earnings for the quarter ended on 31 December 2011 was Rs. 40.6 billion, up by only 0.56% year-on-year according to broking sources who have tracked corporate results. The 210 ...
- Maersk raises 2012 outlook on freight rate recovery (Category: Business)
- Growth gloom (Category: Business)
- WPP cautious on 2012 after emerging markets help 2011 (Category: Business)
Clouded prospects in developed markets cast a shadow over outlook for trade and economyBy Jonathan Story Two key forces that have driven Asia’s transformation for decades can be counted on to continue apace in the coming year: economic development and China’s rise. Nonetheless, individual Asian countries will struggle to balance domestic and international responsibilities in ...
- Divergent trends as Sept. passenger traffic rises freight declines — IATA (Category: Business)
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
- Bouyant StanChart eyes 10th record year, new hires (Category: Business)
- Asia, not North America, now has most millionaires (Category: Business)
Fuel has become as important as food and water to the human life. It is due to fuel being connected to all human activities from cooking to transportation. That is why their hearts miss a beat and their economies get affected when there is a hike in the prices of petrol, diesel, kerosene oil ...
- Sri Lanka’s Ceypetco raises fuel price to record high in line with pricing formula – Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- GOVERNMENT DEPLORES UNP ATTEMPTS TO EXPLOIT THE OIL CRISIS FOR POLITICAL GAINS (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sees backlash against market pricing of expensive, polluting diesel (Category: Breaking News)
- No fuel price revision in Sri Lanka for August: energy ministry (Category: Breaking News)
“Our sense is that if we do not act boldly and if we do not act together, the economy around the world runs the risk of a downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and potential collapse of global demand… we could run the risk of what some commentators are already calling the lost decade” – ...
- W. Bank’s Zoellick says double-dip recession unlikely (Category: Business)
- Flashing red - European debt crisis signals collapse of social welfare state (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
- G20 backs Europe’s plans for overhaul to fight crisis (Category: Business)
If the Governor of Central Bank has an urge to enter politics, he should come to Parliament without playing politics inside the CB, charges United National Party Parliamentarian and well-known Economist Dr. Harsha de Silva. Dr. de Silva notes that Governor Nivard Cabraal should respect the sanctity of the Central Bank and therefore if Cabraal ...
- Treasury Chief urges help for balance of payments (Category: Business)
- Nivard sees weak rupee recovering to 125 (Category: Business)
- Central Bank sees rupee firming helped by inflows (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka affirms flexible FX policy, but will intervene if needed (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis With mobile penetration directly linked to increasing economic growth in a country, Sri Lanka with its bullish growth prospective stands to benefit heavily from the ever-expanding ICT and telecommunication sector. Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific President Rajeev Singh-Molares who was in Sri Lanka for a brief visit yesterday told the media that a World ...
- Sierra Global strengthen ties with Alcatel-Lucent (Category: Business)
- Alcatel-Lucent doubles revenue in Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Alcatel Lucent’s APAC President in town (Category: Business)
- Alcatel-Lucent unveils first profit of $ 1.33 b in six years (Category: Business)
UNP Co-Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya The Budget lacks direction and is neither here or there. For the consumer, it is inflationary; nor does it instil investor confidence. It has a political aim but lacks an economic aim. Furthermore, it does not address the productivity of employment; nor does it address the salaries of professionals and ...
- Blame tough decisions, says Rann (Category: South Australia)
- Vic Govt begins budget sell (Category: Australia, Victoria)
- Muzammil’s moves to deliver on manifesto (Category: Business)
- Govt. takes vengeance on private sector over pension bill – JVP (Category: Business)
Discussion on the validity of non-military engagements of the military The war or internal armed conflict in the north and east is over; the Emergency is no more; but still the military is everywhere. The military is now engaged in peacetime police-work, whale watching, selling vegetables, agriculture, cleaning, constructions and many other non-military activities. Yet, ...
- Military in Sri Lanka encroaching on civilian control of government (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will act on evidence of atrocities by troops (Category: Business)
Harvard University may be America’s top-ranked national university, along with Princeton University, in US News and World Report’s latest best colleges rankings, but a competitor across the pond is now stealing some of that thunder. For the second year in a row, the United Kingdom’s University of Cambridge topped Harvard in the U.S. News World’s ...
- Israeli universities ranked among world’s top 100 (Category: Business)
- Mustansir engaged and challenged at Valparaiso’s College of Engineering (Category: Business)
- Harnessing knowledge: Grassroots innovations for inclusive development (Category: Business)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
Reuters: Anyone hoping that recent falls in commodity prices would provide a boost to powerhouse Asian economies and help lift the developed world out of recessionary danger will be disappointed. The region’s focus remains firmly on inflation. Commodities from crude to corn have slid in the last quarter, with many showing the most dramatic losses ...
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
- Global slowdown silences Asia’s inflation hawks (Category: Business)
- S&P says Asia will pull through hard times (Category: Business)
- Eurozone crisis dampening developing Asia’s growth prospects, warns ADB (Category: Business)
With the World Bank announcing that the world economy is teetering on “a new danger zone,” it is of paramount importance for governments and financial power-houses to restore confidence through concrete policies and systematic financial planning. This is the order of the day, given the recent pessimistic report on the world economy delivered by Morgan ...
- IMF Chief Lagarde emphasises Asia, China role in global recovery (Category: Business)
- Global economy’s ‘timid’ recovery faces high risks: Lagarde (Category: Business)
- Global growth worries dent Asia business sentiment in Q3 (Category: Business)
- China can easily boost consumtion to strengthen its economy: IMF (Category: Business)
‘Remember your humanity’ is a phrase that was made famous by the Russel Einstein manifesto issued on 9 July 1955. This document is considered as the final major document that Albert Einstein signed before his death in 1955 and is quite a famous statement. The whole idea of issuing this statement has been to indicate ...
- Small is beautiful! (Category: Business)
- SMED seminar on managing electrical energy of business enterprises and industries (Category: Business)
- Viable alternative renewable sources - Solar, wind, wave, geo thermal, bio mass (Category: Business)
- Austere ways to avoid crisis (Category: Business)
DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, and Blue Dart, part of the DHL Group, are piloting Smart Truck technology in Bengaluru, India, the first deployment of this successful logistics innovation outside Germany. Created by DHL Solutions & Innovations (DSI), the DHL Smart Truck is an “intelligent” pick-up and delivery vehicle that combines a number of ...
- Preckwinkle criticizes Dart on payroll (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Emanuel and Dart walk into a bar... well, a nightclub (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Dart: Teen's killing 'as cold as you want to hear' (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Feds, retailer recall deadly dart sets (Category: USA, Illinois)
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The current moves of the powerful government in post-war Sri Lanka are mainly for sustaining the wartime military strength, preventing the resurrection of the smashed LTTE and developing the infrastructures, notably the roads and rail network,...
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Lions’ and the ‘Tigers’ of Sovereign Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Are The Structural Changes Necessary? (Category: Breaking News)
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Sri Lanka’s decision to set up a 1,200MW nuclear power plant by 2025 is expected to be the single largest investment in the country. The nuclear power plant is aimed at generating cheap electricity to address the increasing demand while drawing large investments to boost the country’s economy. The Cabinet of ...
- Environmental concern over nuclear plans (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka sticks to nuclear energy hopes even after Fukushima disaster (Category: Breaking News)
- Environmentalists slam Sri Lanka's nuclear power plant plans (Category: Breaking News)
- CEB takes nuclear aim (Category: Breaking News)
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