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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 ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
and alumnus of Oxford University and London School of Economics attached ...
- Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? (Category: USA, Montana)
- Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? (Category: USA, Montana)
- Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? (Category: USA, Montana)
- Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? (Category: USA, Montana)
The Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) recently donated books in marketing to the Jaffna University, with the objective of supporting marketing education at the university. The books donated covered topics such as marketing an introduction, consumer behaviour, economics, economic
- New Head of Marketing at HNB Assurance (Category: Business)
- SLIM, SLII to introduce Diploma in Insurance Marketing (Category: Business)
- Pradeep Edward appointed as inaugural SLIM-BUCKS (UK) Alumni President (Category: Business)
- SLIM ties-up with Indian School of Business (Category: Business)
The first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote 75 years ago: “It would be absurd to say that the profit motive does not appeal to the average Indian, but it is nevertheless true that there is no such admiration for it in India as there is in the west. The possessor of ...
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- The rise of State capitalism: new masters of the universe or an ominous portent? (Category: Business)
- Impunity: Unequal before the law (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Make preparations count (Category: Business)
- Govt. readies for next UN session with national plan for human rights (Category: Business)
- Govt. appoints ministerial committee on human rights ahead of UNHCR sessions (Category: Business)
Foreigners most bullish with net buying up 20% or Rs. 5 b; Market’s value up by Rs. 48 b between 20 July and 24 Aug. Despite original reservations by some that President Mahinda Rajapaksa shouldn’t have met with capital market stakeholders, the Colombo stock market has proved otherwise, with the most bullish being foreign investors. ...
- Bourse set for fresh burst; ASI likely to erase YTD negative return this week (Category: Business)
- Bourse boom awaits boosted brokers after Presidential forum (Category: Business)
- Invest In Stocks With Good Valuations (Category: Breaking News)
- Malik moves out, market makes merry! (Category: Business)
Fitch examines financing alternatives to the current predominant international borrowingsBy Cassandra Mascarenhas Discussing new investment opportunities and financing structures for Sri Lankan private sector entities to enter the current government dominated infrastructure financing in the country, Fitch Ratings Lanka hosted a seminar titled ‘Fitch Perspectives’ last week, featuring F...
- Fitch issues first Sri Lankan fund rating (Category: Business)
- Fitch assigns Ceylon Income Fund an ‘A-(lka)’ rating (Category: Breaking News)
- DEG provides $ 21 m loan to NDB Bank to strengthen SME sector (Category: Business)
- Fitch labels Lanka a ‘highest-risk financial system’ (Category: Business)
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The technical sessions of the Association of Professional Bankers’ 24th anniversary convention were held yesterday, bringing the APB’s flagship event to a close. Aptly themed ‘Sustainability in volatility: The bankers’ challenge,’ each technical session explored an area that could throw obstacles in the path of bankers and the line-up of speak...
- More than ever, businesses must think ‘what if’ (Category: Business)
- Banking foresight – Shaping integrated development (Category: Business)
- APB to promote ‘Sustainability in Volatility’ at 24th anniversary convention (Category: Business)
- Threat of recession contains risk of further global bank failures (Category: Business)
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)
A student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) has brought honour to her motherland after winning the best presentation award in the SAFA category at the International Conference for CA Students in India recently. Cooray, who delivered a thought-provoking presentation titled ‘Walk the Talk: Presentation and Communication Skills – ...
- CA Sri Lanka’s annual convocation today (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka launches Hall of Fame (Category: Business)
- CA Sri Lanka Members’ Benevolent Society seminar on taxation (Category: Business)
- ‘Gurunena’ by CA Sri Lanka enlightens thousands of teachers (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)
‘Apata Galapena Arthika Kramaveda’, a Sinhala economic article collection book by Dr. Rohan Samarajiva, expert on infrastructure policies and C.J. Amaratunga, veteran journalist, will be launched at 4p.m. on 6 August, at the auditorium of the Bandaranayaka Institute of International studies. The book is analysing how the theories relevant to infrastructure sectors such as roads, ...
- Citi Appoints Rohan Weerasinghe General Counsel (Category: Breaking News)
- Young artists in the frame (Category: South Australia)
- Why I love the Pies (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- The countdown begins (Category: Australia, Queensland)
By a Special Correspondent A year or back from today, Sri Lankan economy had been sailing strongly amidst global economic typhoons. Most of the macro variables were reflecting peace dividends and rejuvenated hope. However, by mid 2011, the country’s trade deficit, fuelled by credit expansion was signalling early signs of an economic turmoil. Perhaps being ...
- Why Lion leads frontier (Category: Business)
- Economic growth to rebound in 2013: SCB (Category: Business)
- Flexible exchange rates and impact on exporters (Category: Business)
- Value investors enter as speculators exit (Category: Business)
Marketing process for sales persons Under the marketing concept, the firm must find a way to discover unfulfilled customer needs and bring to market products that satisfy those needs. The process of doing so can be modelled in a sequence of steps: the situation is analysed to identify opportunities, the strategy is formulated for a ...
- How to develop an effective marketing plan (Category: Business)
- Building the customer experience in business-to-business relationships (Category: Business)
- The brand gap (Category: Business)
- Godrej Locks enters market with aggressive growth plans (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Signs of an economic doomsday… is there a way out? (Category: Business)
- Positioning Sri Lanka in the global economy (Category: Business)
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
A special seminar on international education and global careers in finance has been jointly organised by Northwood University (USA) and ANC. Guest speakers from education and industry will introduce both O/Level ad A/Level students and their parents on how to best prepare for top jobs in finance. Seminar details are as follow: It’s all about ...
- CA Sri Lanka takes lead in educating students on IFRS (Category: Business)
- OpenArc organises career guidance seminar (Category: Business)
- Central Bank releases latest educational publication (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank joins Central Bank to promote financial literacy among SMEs (Category: Business)
India Sri Lanka Foundation is supporting the visit of eight students and two teachers from Richmond College, Galle to India to participate in the Gateway Computer Tournament being organised by Montfort Sr. Secondary School, New Delhi from 23 to 29 July. The students and teachers visited the High Commission of India prior to their forthcoming ...
- India-Sri Lanka Foundation supports visit of Sri Lankan students to India (Category: Breaking News)
- Colombo University students at SAESM 2011 in India (Category: Breaking News)
- 20 students from North to visit New Delhi on educational tour (Category: Business)
- India-Sri Lanka Foundation facilitates Northern Province students to visit India (Category: Business)
The Colombo Stock Brokers Association (CSBA) has made fresh representation to the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) as well as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with regard to the major challenges facing the Bourse, in addition to suggesting remedial measures. The critical assessment of the stock market is after acknowledging that an immediate and collective ...
- Brokers more positive after meeting with SEC (Category: Business)
- Brokers to seek variance of SEC credit rule (Category: Business)
Another round of elections has been fixed and the country is turned into election mode. Elections are said to be a benchmark of democracy, and then why are we bothered when more and more elections are held? More and more elections, have we correspondingly increased democracy in Sri Lanka? What does an election mean and ...
- A Bankrupt Country Craves For Urgent ‘System Changes’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Election commission at frontlines of democracy (Category: Breaking News)
- Exercising civic responsibilities (Category: Business)
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)
Sierra Global Network Private Limited, a leading telecommunication infrastructure development and managed services firm in Sri Lanka, has been awarded the prestigious ‘Leadership in Quality Award’ in Gold category by the Business Initiative Directions (BID) during their 16th annual global convention held in the Concorde La Fayette Hotel in Paris last week. “This award is ...
- Sierra Global ventures into managed services (Category: Business)
- Sierra Global gets recertified for ISO 9001 (Category: Business)
- Sierra celebrates 30 years of success (Category: Business)
- 99X Technology wins Arch of Europe Gold Award for Quality and Technology (Category: Business)
The Sri Lanka Economic Association or SLEA, the long-standing professional body of economists of Sri Lanka, has published some selected papers presented at its Annual Sessions in October 2011 in a volume titled ‘Achieving Economic Goals in the Midst of Global Challenges,’ the theme of the sessions. The volume, edited by two veteran economists – ...
- SLEA to release book on ‘Achieving Economic Goals in the midst of Global challenges’ (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Challenging year for Asia Pacific: UNESCAP report (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
- Young political guns speak up for economy (Category: Business)
- Ceylon Chamber spearheaded repositioning post-war Sri Lanka forum kicks off today (Category: Business)
- Sustainability in volatility: The bankers’ challenge (Category: Business)
After 11 years of making US higher education popular across the tiny island nation in Indian Ocean Scholarships for USA (Pvt) Ltd (www.scholarshipsforusa.com) has commenced promoting Sri Lanka as one of the most viable Study Abroad destinations for its numerous partners in US. SUSA believes the traffic needs to be both ways and there’s much ...
- Scholarships for USA team visits Augustana College in Illinois (Category: Business)
- Scholarships team welcomed by Study Illinois (Category: Business)
- US’ Tusculum College looks forward to positive engagement Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Education abroad: Making the right choice (Category: Business)
The Oxford Dictionary tells us that being ‘happy’ is being cheerful with feelings of pleasure or satisfaction. ‘Satisfaction’ is, in turn, when you are pleased because you have achieved something or because something has happened as you wanted it to. A synonym is being ‘content’ – being happy and satisfied with what you have. Rulers ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Transforming education in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s new development tagline Sri Lanka’s current development tagline has been to make it the ‘Emerging Wonder of Asia’ as originally enunciated in the ‘Mahinda Chinthana: Vision for the Future’ and reaffirmed in both the Development Policy Framework of the Government issued in 2010 and the Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance and ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Treasury Secy. showcases recent economic success and future outlook (Category: Business)
Aspirations Intern-ational Academy announced that the modern, futuristic institute in Sri Lanka has introduced teaching for University of London International Programs in BSc Accounting and Finance (Hons), BSc Economics and Management (Hons) and Bachelors in Law- LLB (Hons) further expanding
- Study at a university as diverse and dynamic as London itself (Category: Business)
- An Engineering Career With Just O/L (Category: Breaking News)
- Aspirations Education participates in UCAS International Agents’ knowledge workshop (Category: Business)
The prestigious world construction Symposium of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) will have Sri Lanka as its next venue for the 2012 deliberations. The world Construction Symposium 2012 will be held in Colombo from 28th June to 01st July 2012 at the cinnamon Grand Hotel. This year’s symposium ...
- Industry gears up for ‘Construction Expo 2012’ (Category: Business)
- CIOB to host ‘Global Challenges’ in Construction International Symposium (Category: Business)
- Premier construction suppliers, equipment, machinery and technology show in June (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka is strong to rise against alien forces – Basil Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
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)
Top economist and public servant R.A. Jayatissa has recently assumed duties as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. Previously the SLIC Chairmanship was held by President’s Chief of Staff Gamini Senerath. Jayatissa, an economist, was the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and Senior Economic Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Finance and Planning. He ...
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