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A study has revealed that 9.6 million people of Sri Lanka are currently suffering from poverty, Prof. Wasantha Athukorala of the Department of Economics and Statistics at the University of Peradeniya says.
On 05 October, 2022, The Island carried an article by Dr C. S. Weeraratna with the title “Deteriorating rural economy, and food Security”. On reading this, I was motivated to send a chapter from the biography of D. S. Senanayake by H. A. J. Hulugalle titled ‘The Vision Splendid.’ The book has much more information […]
- Constitutional Reforms in Ceylon/Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- MONLAR, a force for food insecurity, now blames 70-years of government! (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahaweli – A spectacular achievement of JRJ regime piloted by Gamini D (Category: Breaking News)
- Education, culture and health of our rural population compromised (Category: Breaking News)
The Monetary Board, with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, has promoted Mrs. K M A N Daulagala, Assistant Governor and the Secretary to the Monetary Board, to the post of Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). Mrs. K M A N Daulagala has over 31 years of service at […]
- Central Bank appoints new deputy governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Beware, Investors May Get “Sakvithified” / “Golden Keyed”! (Category: Breaking News)
- Monetary Board members term must be limited like for bank directors (Category: Business)
- New Governing Board of CBSL takes office (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Are The IMF & Ranil Wickremesinghe Neoliberal? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Impact Of The Next Election On The Economic Reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Country Has Fallen Due To The Socialist Thinking (Category: Breaking News)
- Collective Consciousness Of Sri Lankans – Is It Constructive Or Destructive (Category: Breaking News)
- Elections & Economic Recovery (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Economic Crimes & The Challenge Of Community Medicine Practitioners appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Dimming Prospects Of International Assistance As Confidence In Erodes (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Leaders Need To Analyse Problems More Rationally (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Leaders Need To Analyse Problems More Rationally (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Leaders Need To Analyse Problems More Rationally (Category: Breaking News)
This currency crisis and banking crisis were originated firstly by policy mis-management from the central bank
- Sri Lanka needs quick fiscal reforms, political stability: Central Bank union (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka needs political stability, fiscal measures for IMF deal: CBSL union (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka rates elevated amid failed float and DDR fears (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka will have to come of crisis through own efforts: PM (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil’s Debt Driven Growth Strategy appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Futility Of “Ranilnomics” Without Systemic Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Glocalization Without Financialization (Category: Breaking News)
- Systemic Drain (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s National Policy & National Council (Category: Breaking News)
The people who raised their hands when these policies were made are now blaming us
- School officials demand end to cuts (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Federal Way cuts tax to raise more money (Category: USA, Washington)
- More cuts in $100m GST black hole (Category: South Australia)
- OPEC+ agrees voluntary oil production cuts (Category: Breaking News)
In India, religion and socialism commingle and collide.
- What should modern independent India be and how can it get there? (Category: Breaking News)
- Gandhian Ethics (Category: Breaking News)
- China: Guidelines Instruct Religions How to Implement the New Patriotic Education Law (Category: Breaking News)
- The Buddha on politics and governance (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Futility Of “Ranilnomics” Without Systemic Change appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why The Shock Over IMF’s Diagnostic Report? (Category: Breaking News)
- RW Summons Youth For Economic Marathon (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Perilous Authoritarian Alternative (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's central bank is likely to maintain interest rates on Thursday in an effort to get a grip on inflation which has remained stubbornly high despite a sharp contraction in the crisis-hit economy.The post Sri Lanka Central Bank to hold rates as inflation worries persist appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka to hold rates as inflation slows slightly, focus on IMF bailout (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank of Sri Lanka threatens administrative measures over high market interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank holds policy interest rates at current levels (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Central Bank to hold rates as inflation stays high (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- The Magic 2048: What Is To Be Done To Make Ranilnomics A Reality? (Category: Breaking News)
We must first set ensure that politics is led by economics and science, and not the other way around.
- Government grants fertilizer subsidy for Sri Lanka's coconut growers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka government allocates Rs. 225 million to popularize organic fertilizer (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to popularize organic fertilizer (Category: Breaking News)
- Coconut production increases (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA On Friday 23rd, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer was billed to present a mini-budget, but what he actually did took everyone by surprise, as it was a budget and half! It was full of tax cuts including the reduction of the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 19%, […]
- Sri Lanka balances polls and crisis recovery in 2024 budget deliberations - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Budget, Taxation Turmoil and Policy Blunders – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to streamline tax structure, boost collections - Treasury Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt plans Revenue Authority to monitor underperforming IRD, Excise dept, Customs (Category: Breaking News)
Country's financial literacy has been low and many rural investors had to leave with empty hands in 2011 market collapse
India and Sri Lanka are to increase cooperation in education and skills training, the High Commission of India in Colombo said. The High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Gopal Baglay, noted India’s endeavour to help Sri Lanka in the education sector, including in higher education through partnership between higher education institutes in India and […]
- India says will stand by Sri Lanka especially in times of need (Category: Breaking News)
- President to attend funeral of Queen Elizabeth II (Category: Breaking News)
- President invites diaspora to invest in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Government accused of suppressing voices of MPs (Category: Breaking News)
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka co-hosted the CBSL-ADBI-APAEA Online Macroeconomics Conference for the third consecutive year, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), on 23 September 2022. This year’s theme remained
- Central Bank Governor optimistic about IMF approval for Sri Lanka’s second tranche of extended f... (Category: Breaking News)
- Discourse on economic crisis in Lanka at CSR (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL to maintain ‘dovish monetary policy in view of economic stabilization’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Bill presented to make Central Bank independent (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work (Category: Breaking News)
- Foreign Debt Restructuring: Too Late & Too Short To Get Out Of The Debt Trap (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Demand Of 182 Academics For Cancelling Sri Lanka’s Foreign Debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Problem Of The People appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year In Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Common Perspectival Framework For A Center-Left Re-Groupment & Revival appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- SLPP Survival Depends On Shift To Dullas, Rejecting Ranil & The Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Pohottuwa’s Suicidal Plunge (Category: Breaking News)
- The Coming Firestorm & How To Get Rid Of Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- May Day Thoughts: Political Economy Of The Ranil-SLPP-SLFP-UNP-SJB Convergence (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Proposed Debt Restructuring Will Pose More Issues Than Answers (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post A Tribute To Winitha (Winifred) Fernando appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Dangers Of Israel-Hamas War (Category: Breaking News)
- Australian Referendum & Human Rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother’s Day & Rights Of Women (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is Wrong With The President’s Vision & Mission? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: The Performance Of Ceylon’s Currency Board (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Currency Boards: Why Did Ceylon Give Up The Currency Board, While Singapore D... (Category: Breaking News)
by Dayan Jayatilleka, PhD Watching Mikhail Gorbachev who died last week at the World Festival of Youth and Students in the Summer of 1985, I had a thought which I later recorded in an article in the Sri Lankan newspapers. I felt, and wrote, that “at last we have a Soviet leader we do not […]
- The World after Gorbachev and Sri Lanka after JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
- Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 (Category: Breaking News)
- The World After Mikhail Gorbachev & Sri Lanka After JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
- Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91 (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ranil-SWOT: A Reappraisal appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The Partnership Between NPP & JVP Must Be Emboldened (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Ranil Creating The 2nd Batalanda? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Prospects At The Next Election (Category: Breaking News)
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 […]
- Correct method of pricing electricity and need to reduce costs (Category: Breaking News)
- The correct method of costing electricity (Category: Breaking News)
- Now is payback time (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to introduce new electricity tariff scheme for low-income households (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Ballad Of A Nation’s Debility: From Bòtale (Mirigama) To 5th Lane (Kollupitiya) appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Journey Down The Memory Lane, Flouters Of Democracy Have Got It In The Neck (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ultimate Betrayal; Ranil’s Last Hurrah! (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Devoid Of Doctrine Is Empty & Harmful In The Long-Run; Premadasa, RW & MR Are Examples (Category: Breaking News)
- The World After Mikhail Gorbachev & Sri Lanka After JR Jayewardene (Category: Breaking News)
The Minister of Finance has repeatedly told the public that the government would pay debts of the nation, owed to foreigners, and also maintain standards of living, both at the same time. Nobody can do that. Nobody can make an omelette without breaking an egg. In that degree it is a lie, no not even […]
[…]The post Child’s Guide To How Ranilnomics Should Be Designed & Implemented appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Need Is Going For IMF Plus (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Don’t Ignore The Message Delivered By IPS SOE22 (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Buddha’s Prescriptions On Governance (Category: Breaking News)
Ansuman Bhagat’s advice: “Build yourself up to stand out and be recognized in a crowd.” is the perfect quote for this article on an outstanding young man, who surely will go places and make his family, his mentor Elmo Jayawardena, and Sri Lanka proud of him. I have just had a friendly chat with him […]
- Current State Of Sri Lankan Economy, According To Dhananath Fernando (Category: Breaking News)
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