Sri Lanka News Explorer
Last 7 Days
Older News
- Older than 2023-Dec (128)
- 2023-Dec (2)
- 2024-Jan (1)
- 2024-Feb (3)
- 2024-Mar (2)
- 2024-Apr (3)
- 2024-May (1)
Narrow by Category
- Breaking News (103)
- Business (37)
[…] The post An Exit Strategy From The Crisis: Agenda For Shared Revival Of Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What’s Next, After The Rajapaksa Clan & #GotaGoGama Are Both Gone? (Category: Breaking News)
- A Postscript To Political Crisis: A Way Out (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President delivers Government’s policy statement in Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
[…] 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 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 A Bleak Future For Humanity? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Where Are We Heading In 2023? (Category: Breaking News)
- What Is To Be Done? – Anura Kumara Dissanayake (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
The location of Sri Lanka has a strategic significance and this has been proven by the historical trading activities between Sri Lanka and ancient China, Egypt, and the Roman Empire. There is ample evidence to show that Sri Lanka was a main trading hub in Asia. The reasons for occupation of Sri Lanka by the ...
- Accelerating inclusive growth: The role of the external sector (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to revive FTA talks with India, China and Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka geared for globalisation? (Category: Business)
- EDB turns 33 (Category: Business)
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
- 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)
NAIROBI (Reuters): Kenya’s horticulture export earnings are expected to grow by 10%this year thanks to above-normal rainfall, but the eurozone’s financial woes were expected to dampen demand for flowers, a senior industry official said on Monday. Horticulture is one of the east African country’s leading sources of foreign exchange alongside tea exports and tourism. The ...
- Japan corporate mood up despite yen worry (Category: Business)
- HE the President visits "Diyatha Uyana" at Battaramulla (Category: Breaking News)
- HE the President visits "Diyatha Uyana" at Battaramulla (Category: Breaking News)
- Serendib Horticulture Technologies to cater field expertise in foreign markets (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)
Four examples; two bad and two goodThe website of the London Economist newspaper has a reference to an official of a certain country referring to a journalist in words similar to what follows – I have substituted words which would be appropriate to an officer and a gentleman addressing a lady, for what was actually ...
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- Entrepreneur and the profit motive (Category: Business)
- Exercising civic responsibilities (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
- 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)
REUTERS: As China slips, the second-half performance for many emerging market mutual funds might soon follow. In recent months, investors have been pulling hundreds of millions of dollars out of stock funds that invest mainly in companies associated with the big four emerging market nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China. But it’s China that ...
- Poor returns cast cloud over BRIC equity funds (Category: Business)
- Asian funds revisit 2008 as third quarter market slump bites (Category: Business)
- Growth disappointments drag India funds down in November (Category: Business)
- Developed or developing? Try merging markets (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)
to the increased weight of emerging markets in the world economy ...
- Bubble Fears (Category: Business)
- Demands on bank assets pose “vicious cycle” danger (Category: Business)
- Rebalancing (Category: Business)
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
WASHINGTON: Developing countries should prepare for a long period of volatility in the global economy by re-emphasising medium-term development strategies, while preparing for tougher times, says the World Bank in the newly-released Global Economic Prospects (GEP), June 2012. A resurgence
- World Bank forecasts South Asia to grow by 6.4% in 2012 (Category: Business)
- Global economic outlook slowly improving but remains fragile (Category: Business)
- World Bank projects global slowdown, with developing countries impacted (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
Offers $ 43 b in overall deal which will see Fund’s base doubling to $ 456 b Reuters: China on Monday offered $43 billion to the IMF’s crisis-fighting reserves, rounding off a global push to nearly double the Fund’s war chest to $456 billion to help protect countries from fallout from the euro zone debt ...
- BRICS demand bigger IMF role before giving it cash (Category: Business)
- BRICS nations gird to pressure West over imbalances (Category: Business)
- IMF seeks more funds; G20 to discuss (Category: Business)
- Lagarde’s next battle at IMF: Power shift (Category: Business)
The global financial crisis of 2008/09 has not sent migrant workers streaming back home, despite worsening employment prospects and anti-immigration rhetoric in some destination countries, says a new book on migration and remittances, published by the World Bank last week. In fact, migrants may have mitigated some of the pain of the crisis as they ...
- New instrument for financing Sri Lankan development (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka received highest remittances from Kuwait, UAE and Qatar in 3Q2023 (Category: Breaking News)
- Current phase of global recovery and implications for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- IMF says fragmentation could cost global economy up to 7% of GDP (Category: Breaking News)
Ballooning trade gap Even with the multitude of measures taken to curb imports, Sri Lanka's cumulative trade deficit widened to nearly US$ 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)
( 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)
LONDON (Reuters) : Brent crude oil gained on Wednesday, with investors optimistic that the U.S. Federal Reserve may give hints of more monetary easing, supporting demand sensitive assets. Brent crude rose 44 cents to $118.60 a barrel by 0909 GMT, while U.S. crude was up 48 cents at $104.03. A third round of monetary stimulus ...
- Brent breaches $125 on US crude stocks rise, possible release (Category: Business)
- Brent slips below $111 (Category: Business)
- Oil dips on euro zone woe, slow global growth (Category: Business)
- Oil gains on US stocks draw (Category: Business)
Reuters: Fresh from a big victory in raising $430 billion for the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde’s tougher test as head of the global lender will be finding a way to give emerging economies more influence. To do this, the former French finance minister will need to convince the Fund’s dominant powers – the United ...
- Global economy’s ‘timid’ recovery faces high risks: Lagarde (Category: Business)
- IMF Chief Lagarde emphasises Asia, China role in global recovery (Category: Business)
- Lagarde eyes $400 b rise in IMF funds this week; Japan pledges $ 60 b (Category: Business)
- BRICS demand bigger IMF role before giving it cash (Category: Business)
Reuters: The Group of 20 nations on Friday pledged $430 billion in new funding to the International Monetary Fund, more than doubling its lending power in a bid to protect the global economy from the euro-zone debt crisis. The promised funds from advanced and emerging economies will provide
- Euro zone crisis set to dominate G20 meeting in Paris (Category: Business)
- IMF seeks more funds; G20 to discuss (Category: Business)
- G20 pushes for extra steps from Europe on crisis (Category: Business)
- IMF says banks skirt rules, financial system unwell (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)
Reuters: The International Monetary Fund’s bid to win a big boost in funding to handle the euro-zone debt crisis hit a speed bump on Thursday when Brazil demanded more power at the IMF for emerging economies as a condition for lending it extra cash. Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega laid out the terms for a ...
- Global economy’s ‘timid’ recovery faces high risks: Lagarde (Category: Business)
- IMF Chief Lagarde emphasises Asia, China role in global recovery (Category: Business)
- Lagarde eyes $400 b rise in IMF funds this week; Japan pledges $ 60 b (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to offer winter tourism refuge from Powell-Lagarde bubble (Category: Breaking News)
Prospects for the global economy are slowly improving again, but growth is expected to be weak, especially in Europe, and unemployment in many advanced economies will stay high, according to the IMF’s latest forecast. Although action by policymakers in Europe and elsewhere has helped
- IMF marks down global growth forecast, sees risk on rise (Category: Business)
- World Bank projects global slowdown, with developing countries impacted (Category: Business)
- G20 moves to line up huge rescue deal for April (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
The heads of state of BRICS countries met for the fourth time at their annual summit, this time held in Delhi. The original BRICS countries are Brazil, Russia, India and China with South Africa joining later on. These countries belong to the category now described as emerging economies. The BRIC countries together represent over 40 ...
- BRICS to eye joint bank, exchange ties at summit (Category: Business)
- CCC reaches out to emerging markets through BRICS-PED (Category: Business)
- BRICS eye creation of multi-lateral bank (Category: Business)
- BRICS nations gird to pressure West over imbalances (Category: Business)
Popular Topics
- International Monetary Fund (113)
- Political crisis (140)
- Foreign exchange reserves (100)
- Shortage (17)
- Bank reserves (140)
- Fuel (42)
- Economy of Sri Lanka (140)
- Russia (140)
- Ukraine (57)
- Sri Lanka Tea (105)
- Tourism (25)
- Sri Lanka Quality Tea (108)
- Sri Lanka Tourism (107)
- Sri Lanka Cricket (103)
- Sri Lanka Hotels (103)
- Sri Lanka Elections (105)
- Adaderana (1)
- Hiru Tv (11)
- ITN News (110)
- Shakthi Tv (11)
- Rupavahini (1)
- Derana Dream Star (15)
- EPF (2)
- BBC (8)
- Rob Ford (5)