2025年1月11日 · When at a loose end I am in the habit of pulling a book out of my bookshelf to browse through. I do it with both pleasure and profit; passing time gives perspective, offering new insights to books read long ago or casually put aside then. While reading I also tend to look up on the author, the times ...

2025年1月12日 · The ideological Left and Right in Sri Lanka have staked out their positions on the country’s perennial rice crisis. In the view of the ideological Left, the country’s food crisis including the recent rice crisis is even traceable to the allegedly flawed IMF program. And the preferred solution is getting back to the future and achieving self-sufficiency in food based on a …

2025年1月4日 · AKD’s agenda is likely to focus on internal issues so that the NPP performs reasonably well in local body elections in 2025. The NPP has a weak footprint on the ground unlike mainstream parties which have traditional strongholds.

2024年12月29日 · “Elections have consequences,” President Barak Obama triumphantly told congressional Republicans in 2009, as he began his historic first term as the first African-American President of the United States of America. But the election of Trump eight years later and Trump’s election again in 2024 ...

2025年1月10日 · It was also pessimism over the reckless exploitation of scale economies and blind commitment to technology as panacea for all economic problems that prompted E. F. Schumacher to publish a year later his Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered.And, as if to hasten the realization of MIT’s gloomy prediction the 1978 OPEC oil crisis struck the first blow to the Keynesian ...

2025年1月10日 · On December 18, 2024 the President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announced in Parliament a series of tax changes. Some taxes were increased while the other taxes were decreased. Those changes were revision of personal income tax, increase in withholding tax on interest from 5% to 10%, imposition of VAT of 18% on digital services, Removal of export service exemption on income tax and tax them at 15% ...

2025年1月3日 · Stop Child Cruelty Trust (SCCT) and Child Protection Alliance (CPA) comprising thirteen credible organizations committed to protect and promote the rights of children have appealed to The President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the newly elected Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to elevate child welfare to the heart of national governance ushering a new dawn firmly focusing on the true ...

2024年12月2日 · Over the past 40 years, the world has experienced a fractious relationship between value systems associated with nationalism and globalisation, which social scientists have identified as two defining features of the modern era, producing complementary processes in …

2024年11月1日 · The World Bank announced last week that ‘Sri Lanka’s economy has stabilized, with growth expected to reach 4.4% in 2024, surpassing earlier forecasts.’ This ‘good news’ has brought the political conversation to the ‘right’ path set in …

2025年1月4日 · The gravity of the issues confronted by the policy makers and the resulting dilly dallying associated n this regard is seen by the number of cabinet papers we have seen going up and down with varying observations being made by the Ministers based on official representations they received from the academics over a period extending well beyond a decade.