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[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Restrictions On Forex Forward Market appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Modern Monetary Theory: Keynesianism In An Old Bottle? (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Child’s Guide To Foreign Borrowings: Are They An Evil Or Not? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Has The Economy Been Assassinated & If So, Who Were The Assassins? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Fiscal Literacy: Low Literacy At All Levels Is The Curse (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Fiscal Literacy: Low Literacy At All Levels Is The Curse (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Fiscal Literacy: Low Literacy At All Levels Is The Curse (Category: Breaking News)
By Indika Sri Aravinda There is a serious shortage of blood at the National Blood Bank because of the curfew in the Western Province, officials said today. Director of the National Blood Transfusion Service Dr. Lakshman Edirisinghe told the Colombo Gazette that the curfew in Colombo has prevented
- Brisbane's dining dynasties (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- A Blood transfusion Force to be set up (Category: Breaking News)
- Blood spat into cop's face (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Dogs donate blood to help their fellow canines (Category: USA, Washington)
COLOMBO, 6 June 2012 (IRIN) – Three years after conflict ended in northern Sri Lanka, many thousands of civilians remain separated from their ID cards and other official documents lost in the heat of battle and are consequently unable to access a range of essential government services. RUNNING FOR YOUR LIFE From 2008 until the war was ...
- Bane of lost IDs after wartime (Category: Business)
- SRI LANKA: Bane of lost IDs after wartime (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA: Former Tiger fighters battle for a normal life (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse government continues its witch hunt against media and dissenting voices (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s weekly tea auction has seen small leaf teas fetching low prices and the highly priced tippy varieties going unsold, as Iran, the main buyer of those teas is struggling to access foreign exchange. “This could be attributed to Iran’s lack of access to foreign exchange and other sanction measures”, added John Keells tea brokers ...
- Sri Lanka’s regional plantation companies facing cash flow problems – Tea broker (Category: Breaking News)
- “Ceylon Tea” exports during the first eight months of 2011 see growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Low grown tea prices to reach record levels in the near future (Category: Breaking News)
- TEA EXPORT EARNINGS INCREASE (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s Central Bank today further devalued the rupee by moving it up by 30 cents to set a conversion rate of 114.20 per dollar from Rs. 113.90 levels set yesterday, to reflect the government’s 3% devaluation. However the bank once again went back to the original position of Rs. 113.90 per dollar by around 1 ...
- Despite Rupee devaluation, inflation during the upcoming months will remain at manageable levels... (Category: Breaking News)
- The Inevitable 20 percent Depreciation in the Rupee (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka awaits Cabinet approval to issue another dollar bond (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Haycarb PLC plans further expansion (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. O.G Dayaratna-Banda Department of Economics and Statistics University of Peradeniya Adoring the discarded neo-liberalism The Secretary to the Treasury of Sri Lanka has seemingly informed the Vice Chancellors of the Universities at a meeting held at the UGC that the “increase of the salaries of university academics or any other public sector workers ...
- Inflation – Public Enemy Number One (Category: Breaking News)
- Pitfalls of export-led growth (Category: Breaking News)
- Are The IMF & Ranil Wickremesinghe Neoliberal? (Category: Breaking News)
Tea export earnings increased by 16.1% to US$ 1,375 million last year due to both increased volumes and high prices. Ceylon tea continued to fetch the highest prices in the major auction centres of the world last year mainly due to the fine quality of Ceylon tea and the high international demand for orthodox tea. ...
- JANUARY TEA OUTPUT INCREASES (Category: Breaking News)
- Commodity Boom (Category: Business)
- World drinks more tea, FAO predicts strong price (Category: Business)
- 2011 tea exports a record in dollar terms too (Category: Business)
Minister of National Languages and Social Integrity Mr. Vasudeva Nanayakkara has instructed the Department of Official Languages to fully implement the official languages policy of the country. The shortage of translators has adversely affected the implementation of the policy, and as a remedial
- 22,000 teachers receiving linguistic training (Category: Breaking News)
- Buses to have name boards in sinhala, Tamils (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to implement official language policy (Category: Breaking News)
- Steps taken to fully implement the Official Language Policy (Category: Breaking News)
Rice Shortage Likely In The Coming Months By Raisa Wickrematunge and Abdul H. Azeez Heavy rains lashed the island unmercifully this week. The ensuing floods and earth slips have damaged houses, affecting over a million people. Further dangers that will only be truly realised in the months
- Floods displace 900,000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Rain will continue (Category: Breaking News)
- Food Shortage And Inflation: A World Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Red Cross warns of funding gap as fresh flooding affects more than 1 million people in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Austin Fernando In recent times there had been vast discussion on returning the displaced. The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), media, Diaspora, diplomatic inquiries- especially from India- led these dialogues. When certain Tamil representatives gave evidence before the LLRC the internally displaced person’s (IDP’s) and refugees’ rights and plight became secondary ...
- Govt focus on resettling "New" IDP's resulting in "Old" IDP"s being overlooked (Category: Breaking News)
- Submission by the Catholic Diocese of Mannar to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC Action Plan Calls For Police To Be Independent (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka’s government implement the LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
An Interview with SB Dissanayake by Chamitha Kuruppu Admitting the Government has launched a campaign to eliminate JVP-led student movements crippling the university system in the country, Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayake points out such moves should not be...
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Chaos in universities: A solution? (Category: Business)
- Law students can be assisted to learn English – President (Category: Breaking News)
- “Our motto is quality, not money”: BMS President (Category: Business)
By GABRIELLA STERN NEW YORK -- Sri Lanka's president said Wednesday that rising labor costs in China present an opportunity for his South Asian country to attract foreign companies seeking an alternative low-cost manufacturing base....
- Kalutara gets the second Open University of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President Rajapaksa sworn in for new term (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankaâs President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa with US President (Category: Breaking News)
- The `We can` philosophy (Category: Breaking News)
By M.Sooriasegaram The proposed Nallur Hotel in Jaffna by the Mercantile Bank of Sri Lanka has sparked off a public debate. At a public consultative meeting organized by the Mayor of Jaffna several weeks ago, Minister Douglas Devananda, who chaired...
- Nallur festival attracts large crowds (Category: Breaking News)
- Green Globe certifies 20 Mövenpick hotels in Middle East (Category: Business)
- Jaffna Revisited – Some Quick Impression On Post-War Development (Category: Breaking News)
- Youth prick the tattoo of LTTE symbol arrested at Nallur (Category: Breaking News)
By Shamindra Ferdinando Prabhakaran’s successor, T. S. Pathmanathan or simply ‘KP’ as he is better known has thrown his weight behind Sri Lanka’s post-LTTE efforts to restore peace in the Northern and Eastern provinces....
- Sri Lankan govt reaches agreement with LTTE faction led by Pathmanathan alias "KP" (Category: Breaking News)
- A new war: SL backed KP vs India backed TNA (Category: Breaking News)
- Playing politics with LTTE dead (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-war deceptions (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has announced plans to issue up to 1 billion US dollars worth of bonds to settle short-term debt. At the same time they have decided to negotiate for credit with the EXIM Bank of China for water supply projects in Gampha, Atthnagalle and Minuwangoda. The Cabinet has committed to ...
- Sri Lanka Telecommunication Regulatory Act No. 25 of 1991 to be amended (Category: Breaking News)
- SL to enact International Convention for Suppression of Nuclear Terrorism (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Cabinet approves transfer policy for administrative officers (Category: Breaking News)
- Technology Promotion Act to replace Information and Communication Technology Act No. 27 of 2003 (Category: Breaking News)
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