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[…]The post Go Set A Watchman appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Qualified Candidates Essential For System Change (Category: Breaking News)
- Chasing The Mirage Of National Reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Musings On A New Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
Survey reveals deep-rooted Mercantilism and total lack of classical economics
- Sri Lanka needs political stability, fiscal measures for IMF deal: CBSL union (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka continues to soft-peg in May intervening in both directions (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka non-oil imports down in March 2022 as soft-peg collapses (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka halts imports of over 300 items (Category: Breaking News)
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)
A trio of U.S. economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year s Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis.
[…]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)
(Al Jazeera) French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.Ernaux was honoured “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”, the jury […]
- Swedish poet Transtroemer wins Nobel Literature Prize (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel economics prize goes to Claudia Goldin (Category: Breaking News)
- Nobel Prize in physics won by trio who created rapid flashes of light to watch electrons move (Category: Breaking News)
- 3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots (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)
- 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)
- Budget 2023 Will Be The Acid Test Of RW’s Magic Wand (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)
- Ranil’s Policy Train-Wreck, Opposition Own-Goals, Dullas-GL Game-Changer (Category: Breaking News)
The US central bank has pushed interest rates to the highest level in almost 15 years as it fights to rein in soaring prices in the world’s largest economy. The Federal Reserve announced it was raising its key rate by another 0.75 percentage points, lifting the target range to 3% to 3.25%. Borrowing costs are […]
- UK to be one of worst performing economies this year (Category: Breaking News)
- Fed raises US interest rates to highest in 16 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Prince Harry makes sensational claims in memoir Spare (Category: Breaking News)
- A divided Japan bids farewell to its slain ex-PM (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)
From a philosophical point of view, Islamic financial markets are actually risk-sharing stock markets with moral issues defined by the shariah. So far, few Muslim countries have used stock markets to make social change. A third way, therefore, is already technically feasible. All it takes is some courage to think and act ou-of-the-box. By ANDREW […]
- Surpassing neoliberal fictions towards mission-oriented state (Category: Breaking News)
- Corporate sector offers policymakers a blueprint for CPC reform (Category: Breaking News)
- Debt Trap Lessons (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 Stella Yifan Xie HONG KONG—The sharp slowdown in China’s growth in the past year is prompting many experts to reconsider when China will surpass the U.S. as the world’s largest economy—or even if it ever will. Until recently, many economists assumed China’s gross domestic product measured in U.S. dollars would surpass that of the […]
- Global IT spending on pace to surpass $3.6 trillion in 2012 – Gartner (Category: Business)
- Economic growth to surpass 6.5 percent (Category: Breaking News)
- India population to surpass China mid-year- U.N. estimates (Category: Breaking News)
- Vettel can surpass Schumacher – Lauda (Category: Business)
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