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by Jayasri Priyalal Jayasripriyalal59@gmail.com The greatest challenges confronting the nation-states in the current era revolve around; deplorable debt, depleted natural resources, and degraded environment. Economic growth and future prosperity for all living beings are stalled due to the varying degrees of the 3D problems emerging out of ill-conceived policy divergences propelling the linear eco...
- IMF Must Become More Than Just A Debt Collector For Private Creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- SL hopes for productive talks at IMF WB spring meetings (Category: Breaking News)
- A survival strategy amidst geopolitical rivalry (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to brief creditors on IMF deal for economic recovery (Category: Breaking News)
[An article based on the Keynote Address delivered by Dr. P. Nandalal Weerasinghe, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, recently at the Annual Research Symposium 2023 of the University of Colombo] Introduction Inflation affects every aspect of our lives; it is a force that shapes our purchasing power, influences our financial decisions, and […]
- Nexus between money, exchange rate, money printing and inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL’s inflation reduced to single digit levels in 2023 along with restoration of price stability’ (Category: Breaking News)
- High interest rates have prevented contraction of economy – CBSL Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- CB eases monetary conditions by reducing its interest rates (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Taxation Without Accountability Is Not Sustainable appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Debt Restructuring, Austerity & The IMF: A Panacea Or An Exacerbation? – Part VI (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Currency Board Systems: Steve Hanke’s Crusade For Currency Boards (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Actual Tax Payment Is Not What One Pays Today (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Governance & Economic Development – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
by Jehan Perera The increase in the price of petrol and diesel has been accompanied by the removal of the QR Code quota system for the purchase of fuel. The elimination of long lines of vehicles, and people, outside of the fuel stations that existed a year ago is one of the signs of normalisation […]
- Taxation Without Accountability Is Not Sustainable (Category: Breaking News)
- CPA survey claims JVP Leader most popular with 48.5% of those surveyed (Category: Breaking News)
- Joint food security assessment by govt., FAO, WFP next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Nearly 6 million Lankans need humanitarian assistance – Red Cross (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Target 2048 – Is It Firm Responsive Leadership Or Dictatorial Authoritarian Leadership? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Target 2048: It Is Democracy & Not Authoritarianism That Will Do The Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Complex Economy System (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Economic Democracy Principles Should Be Followed To The Letter (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Private Sector Should Not Just Sit Aloof (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Good Governance & Economic Development – Part III appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Child’s Guide To Ranilnomics: Economic Reforms Unproductive Unless Extractive Institutions Are H... (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Governance & Economic Development – Part II (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Private Sector Should Not Just Sit Aloof (Category: Breaking News)
- A Child’s Guide To Failed Trump Coup: Strong Institutional Setup Saved USA (And Democracy Too) (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Good Governance & Economic Development – Part II appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Bastiat Reborn In Sri Lanka: Will His Philosophy Be Accepted By Sri Lankans? (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Governance & Economic Development – Part III (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Governance & Economic Development (Category: Breaking News)
- Target 2048 – Private Sector Should Not Just Sit Aloof (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Good Governance & Economic Development appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Fleas Dream Of Buying A New Dog (Category: Breaking News)
- Opinion Vs Truth (Category: Breaking News)
- Are We Rotting Or Rotten? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Two Challenges: Economic Recovery & Political Devolution (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Lanka: Dilemmas & Economic Programmes – Do We Consume More Than We Produce? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Planning For A Year Of Elections (Category: Breaking News)
- The Impact Of The Next Election On The Economic Reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Liberal Or Edible Economics: Global Disorder Worst In A Century (Category: Breaking News)
- Liberalism, capitalism & The Hungry Masses: “Edible Economics” Will Need To Restrain Choices (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Who Or What Made Us Insolvent appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Greenwashing Bond Scams & Financializing Mother Nature: Climate Science Fiction Versus Local Rea... (Category: Breaking News)
- Bleeding Hearts & Brave Hearts (Category: Breaking News)
- Electing A New Parliament & Ending The Old Presidency (Category: Breaking News)
- Brahmins Demand A Debate On Debt (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Amherst man accused of threatening 6 members of Congress for failing to support President Trump (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- Amherst man accused of threatening 6 members of Congress for failing to support President Trump (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- Amherst man accused of threatening 6 members of Congress for failing to support President Trump (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- Amherst man accused of threatening 6 members of Congress for failing to support President Trump (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
[…]The post Impetus For Aragalaya 2.0 – Transform From Vertical To A Horizontal Power Structure appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 75 Years Of Non-Democracy In Our Democratic Nation (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Springboarding From The Aragalaya To A New Nation We All Deserve (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
The United Kingdom (UK) says it recognises the economic challenges that Sri Lanka is facing. UK Foreign Office Minister Vicky Ford said the UK is closely monitoring the economic situation in Sri Lanka, including foreign exchange data reported by Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan authorities. In a written response to the UK […]
- UK in talks with Paris Club on Sri Lanka issue (Category: Breaking News)
- UK calls for inclusive approach to resolve crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives Speaker to coordinate relief assistance for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Boris Johnson speaks to Ranil about Putin’s barbaric invasion (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Today’s Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What I Wish To See In The NPP (Category: Breaking News)
- Never-Ending Political Games; Country Is At Peril (Category: Breaking News)
- Evaluation Of Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- An Open Letter To All Parliamentarians (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka Tamils: No Choice But To Join GotaGoGama, Stay Put Or Go Abroad appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Church Of Ceylon In Anarchy: Caste & Affirmative Action (Category: Breaking News)
- Identity In Choice: The Problem Caste In Christianity (Category: Breaking News)
- Hamaduru Ethics Or Deontology? The Challenge Before Modern Sri Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
- Minorities Within Minorities Bullied Into Giving-Up Their Right To Convert & Be Converted Religion (Category: Breaking News)
By Easwaran Rutnam The United Kingdom (UK) is in talks with Paris Club members on potential solutions to Sri Lanka’s unsustainable debt. The Paris Club is a group of officials from major creditor countries whose role is to find co-ordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary at […]
- UK calls for inclusive approach to resolve crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UK recognises economic challenges in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to seek assistance from Paris Club and G7 (Category: Breaking News)
- UK dismayed at use of violence against protesters in Sri Lanka (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 Sri Lanka: Financial Meltdown, Time For Reforms & Re-Start appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Collective Consciousness Of Sri Lankans – Is It Constructive Or Destructive (Category: Breaking News)
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- The Current System & Unlawful Actions (Category: Breaking News)
- Government Brutalities Against Protesters (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya’s Experts, Gauthama’s Villains & Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya’s Experts, Gauthama’s Villains & Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Reading Economics Through Ethnic Lens (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Buddhism & Corruption: The Unholy Twins (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya’s Experts, Gauthama’s Villains & Muslims (Category: Breaking News)
A salutary reader interest on share market regulation A reader of the previous week’s My View titled ‘SEC: Not a mere watchdog, but a bloodhound mandated to bite’ has raised an important issue with this writer. He has asked the question why it is necessary to have a regulator to police the financial markets and ...
- The ability to save (Category: Business)
- Of Confidence Tricksters and Ponzi Schemes (Category: Breaking News)
- Pyramid schemes galore in rural areas where financial literacy is low– Police spokesman (Category: Breaking News)
- Need To Restrain The Power Of Shadow Finance (Category: Breaking News)
Commissioners given freedom to decide future course with regard to DG post Dr. Jayasundera says top professionals picked to give leadership to a sound capital market growth Priyantha and Sujeewa served as Commissioners under Indrani Sugathadasa as well Opposition and certain market segments decry choice of men given their conflicting roles By Nisthar Cassim Likely ...
- Mudalige out; Kalinga in (Category: Business)
- Ex-SEC DG Channa appointed to Pan Asia Bank board (Category: Business)
- Ex-Bribery Chief laments non-payment of arrears (Category: Business)
- SEC Annual Report: No show of Indrani and thankless to ex-DG Malik (Category: Business)
Government’s commitment: Will improve state enterprises The Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance and Planning for 2011, just released, has, among many others, one important positive message for the nation. It has reiterated the Government’s commitment, as it had done earlier too, to improving the performance of what it calls State Owned Business Enterprises ...
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- Electrifying losses (Category: Business)
- C-Suits focus on implementing Enterprise Risk Management on enterprise-wide (Category: Business)
- Sajith slams Expropriation Bill (Category: Business)
What do nation states do when their politicians ruin their economies by serial lying to the voters, running up huge domestic and international financial deficits, uncontrolled corruption, cannot keep interest rates at reasonable rates, cannot control inflation nor hold the exchange rate steady and run the country on an unsustainable basis, depending on what has ...
- Inept’ocracy (Category: Business)
- Mario Monti named to head new Italy government (Category: Business)
- Asia stocks rise on hopes of progress in Europe (Category: Business)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will inaugurate tomorrow the three-day Rotary South Asia Conference for Development and Cooperation hosted by Sri Lanka. The President will address the ceremonial inauguration on Sunday at 9 a.m. at Galadari Hotel whilst the conference will be held at Cinnamon Grand. Around 300 delegates and speakers of repute from the corporate and ...
- The Hindu Editor Ram in town for next week’s top Rotary conference (Category: Business)
- Rotary group study exchange programme to Osaka (Category: Business)
Roads Bring Development Roads, bring forth with it development, Sujeewa Mudalige, senior partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers Sri Lanka, an audit firm, told this reporter. Mudalige, who holds other key appointments such as being the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, said that he has impressed upon Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith ...
- Kurunegala District Women’s Chamber convention to boost floriculture (Category: Business)
- International style footwear and leather show kicks off on Friday (Category: Business)
- Carlyle Group acquires 9% stake in India Infoline (Category: Business)
by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...
- Asia economy: Consumers to the rescue? (Category: Business)
- Economic power shifting to Asia from the West? (Category: Business)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
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