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[…] The post A Staged Default & Sovereign Bond Debt Trap? IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Of Elections, Bond Scams & Money Politics: The Anatomy Of Default @75 (Category: Breaking News)
- Gota Back In The USA & A Chilling Killing: Welcome To 2023 A (Virtual) Realty In A Post-Truth Wo... (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, Sri Lanka’s Resource Curse & Privatization Of The Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 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)
- A Child’s Guide To Economy.21: Challenge Is To Turnaround Bankrupt Sri Lanka Inc. (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 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)
- A Child’s Guide To Economy.21: Challenge Is To Turnaround Bankrupt Sri Lanka Inc. (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 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)
- A Child’s Guide To Economy.21: Challenge Is To Turnaround Bankrupt Sri Lanka Inc. (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post A Child’s Guide To Acute Macro Imbalances: Ignore It At Your Own Peril appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 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)
- A Child’s Guide To Economy.21: Challenge Is To Turnaround Bankrupt Sri Lanka Inc. (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
[…] The post Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- Conspiracy Stories Are All Over; But Why Are They So Popular & Readily Accepted? (Category: Breaking News)
- In This Election Year, Sri Lanka Needs A Lot Of Rationally Thinking People (Category: Breaking News)
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)
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)
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Sri Lanka’s biggest ICT events of 2012, the ASOCIO international conference and the country’s national IT expo INFOTEL, will be held consecutively portraying the country’s persistent ICT development and the significance of the rapidly expanding industry. Hosted by the Federation of Information Technology Industry (FITIS), the Asian-Oceanian Computi...
- Nominations called for ICT Lifetime Achiever 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka re-elected as Chair of UNESCAP ICT Committee third time (Category: Business)
- Microsoft Sri Lanka Partners ICTA for FutureGov SAARC Summit 2012 (Category: Business)
Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...
- Fearing political pressure, Sri Lanka president wants to avoid trade integrations with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is no pearl on China’s string: President (Category: Business)
- From defence sales to electricity grids, India upgrades Lanka ties (Category: Business)
- In bid to counter China, US ramps up effort to boost military ties in Asia (Category: Breaking News)
With no incidents of terrorism or a threat of its resurgence within Sri Lanka, most counter terrorism activities undertaken by the government in 2011 targeted possible LTTE overseas finances, a United States government report said. 'Country Reports on Terrorism 2011', an annual report issued by the The US State Department - reviews the counter terrorism events worldwide last year, said...
- Lanka targets overseas LTTE finances - US (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka targets overseas LTTE finances - US (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Illegally Holding Hundreds of Prisoners: Amnesty (Category: Breaking News)
- Establish NGO advisory and diaspora division (Category: Breaking News)
with its counterparts in countries such as Mongolia, Russia, ...
- Asylum-seeker boat from Sri Lanka capsizes off Australia (Category: Breaking News)
- Sala says, its “Language Companion” sees heavy demand (Category: Breaking News)
- Plans afoot to distribute school text books (Category: Breaking News)
- Boat carrying 200 sinks off Australia – over 75 asylum seekers perish (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s dependence on imported milk is a phenomenon that evolved during the time frame of my lifetime. I well remember as a child, a man used to bring a cow and its small calf to our house – we lived in a Government quarters bungalow in Colombo – and milk the cow, in the ...
- Why Sri Lanka’s dairy industry has languished (Category: Business)
- Nestlé increases milk collection (Category: Business)
- Anchor Newdale sets the standard for freshness and quality with locally sourced milk (Category: Business)
- Growing challenge of food insecurity and malnutrition in Sri Lanka amidst macroeconomic crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Industry experts urge disillusioned local investors to ‘buy when it’s down and sell when it’s up’ In a highly volatile atmosphere and with low investor confidence in the Colombo Bourse, experts earlier this week went against the negative sentiments and instead stated that now is the time to buy. These views were aired at a ...
- Why Lion leads frontier (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Sustainability in volatility: The bankers’ challenge (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)
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)
Given one month extension pending reconstitution Adding to the confusion and controversies, the Board of Directors of the BOI is in limbo with subject Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera giving it a month’s extension. The move follows the tenure of the members of the Board ending recently and until the latest extension indicated this week, ...
- BOI says approvals up 100%, agreements signed by 25% in 1Q (Category: Business)
- Challenges for FDI (Category: Business)
- Ministry of Economic Development breaks silence; responds to tourism, BOI issues (Category: Business)
- FDI exceeds 1.5 billion USD target set by BOI for 2023 -State Minister of Investment Promotion (Category: Breaking News)
“…the licence of an unrestrained clique is almost always enjoyed at the expense of genuine liberty of others”. AC Grayling (Toward the Light of Liberty) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Will the corrosive Rajapaksa ethos prove to be a far more abiding yoke than even Rajapaksa rule? Will Rajapaksa politico-administrative mores become transformed into governance-traditions, and thereby ...
- Sri Lanka President urges public to remain calm and to stop violence (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa double-speak holds Sri Lanka captive to its history (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Freedom Party commemorates 61st Anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa govt should be faulted for callous response towards floods devastation (Category: Breaking News)
Ballooning trade gap Even with the multitude of measures taken to curb imports, Sri Lanka's cumulative trade deficit widened to nearly US$ 1.7 billion in the first two months of the year with earnings from exports increasing marginally by 3.3 per cent to US$ 1.8 billion whilst import expenditure shooting by 24.7 per cent to ...
- Hub is no hoodoo, says TEA (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’? The billion dollar question (Category: Business)
- Do people prefer coffee over tea? (Category: Business)
After the LTTE was defeated, a campaign designed to promote Sri Lanka as a leisure and investment destination labelled ‘The Small Miracle’ was shot down, ostensibly on the ground that the miracle was in no way ‘small’. The marketing value in Sri Lanka’s compact size, our rich biodiversity, the diversity of leisure locations and physical ...
- Lanka’s economic miracle turns sour (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Burmese Lessons’ for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Suu Kyi’s party claims landslide win in Myanmar vote (Category: Business)
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) signed a cooperation agreement with the Chamber for Promotion and Economic Development of the BRICS Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) called ‘BRICS-PED’ recently. This special agreement will initially promote an identified
- PED Secretary discusses plans for spring semester (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- PED Secretary discusses plans for spring semester (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- PED Secretary discusses plans for spring semester (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Mo-ped driver killed in collision with truck (Category: USA, South Carolina)
( April 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera we...
- IOC eyeing oil refining in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Does Sri Lanka need India to run Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- China to provide US$ 600 million to finance the phase II of the Hambantota port (Category: Breaking News)
- IOC considering setting up a US$ 3.5 billion worth oil refinery in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka has once again, like many times in recent years, sought the assistance of China to help avert a balance of payments crisis and also fund two key projects, official and political sources said. In a visit just before the Sinhala and Hindu New Year, that was kept under wraps, a team of officials led by Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera went to China and secured assurances of a US$1....
- Persian Prop (Category: Business)
- Refining Revision (Category: Business)
- China set to build new Sri Lanka refinery, says Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Oil Plan (Category: Business)
Shift The Human Rights Council made a shift from May 2009 by voting (March 22) to criticize the Sri Lankan government for “not adequately address... serious allegations of violations of international law” when conducting its final phases of war against the liberation guerrilla army LTTE (Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam), which ended, May 18, 2009, with government-caused ...
- Resolution against Sri Lanka passed at UNHRC sessions (Category: Business)
- Why A Tamil Common Candidate In The Presidential Election? (Category: Breaking News)
- UN motion on war crimes against Sri Lanka adopted (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan Tamils & Palestinians: International Justice In The Dark? (Category: Breaking News)
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has once again been adjudged Sri Lanka’s Best Bank by Global Finance magazine, giving the bank the distinct honour of winning this prestigious award for 14 consecutive years. The US-based magazine has named its ‘Best Emerging Market Banks in Asia’ rankings in an exclusive survey to be published in the ...
- Commercial Bank arrives at Maskeliya (Category: Business)
- COMBank declared Sri Lanka’s ‘Bank of the Year’ by The Banker (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank named Bank of the Year (Category: Breaking News)
- Commercial Bank opens branch in Middeniya (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis The volatility in Middle Eastern markets, coupled with the increasing issue of low quality due to competition and increasing costs, has placed the local tea industry in a big fix, which could, if unattended, immediately mark the end of a Sri Lankan legacy in four to five years. Despite Sri Lankan tea ...
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Planters’ Association Chief says turbulent times for tea (Category: Business)
- Sector report (Category: Business)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
Let’s learn the right lessons from the Geneva outcome, not the wrong ones. It is not the case that a small country such as Sri Lanka cannot fight a diplomatic battle with the mighty USA and win. Minutes after the Sri Lanka vote at the HRC this time, the Cubans moved a resolution on the composition ...
- Krishna to make special statement on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India concerned over resolutions at UNHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- US Pot Boils While Govt. Steps Up Diplomatic Offensive (Category: Breaking News)
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