BUSINESS AFFAIRS
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CARBON NEUTRALITY
We live in an age of nonlinearity. Everything proceeds with speed, and there are no necessary and certain preconditions for
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FISCAL OUTLOOK
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) cut key policy rates for deposits and lending by 0.5 percent at the end of May. Two reasons could be cited
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DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES
Over the past 71 years or so, we’ve been told that Sri Lanka is a ‘developing’ country. So when
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
As with most concepts, behavioural economics is not a new field although it’s by and large much younger than centuries old
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AGRICULTURE SECTOR
The banana is a staple food and an essential cash crop for smallholder farmers. It’s consumed as both table and culinary fruit.
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SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS
TURNING IDEAS INTO PROJECTS Meeting corporate aims through sustainability projects – Kiran Dhanapala Projects are vehicles for implementing corporate sustainability whereby they’re developed in the context of a relevant…
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DEBT MANAGEMENT
Sri Lanka’s public debt has been on the rise, growing to 91.9 percent of GDP in 2018 compared to 84.9 percent in the prior year due to
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STARTUP FUNDING
What does it take to convert a brilliant idea into a profitable business? Funding! Instinct takes many an
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RURAL SECTOR
In the immediate post-independence years and even earlier, the country’s rural and semi-urban areas lacked the
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PLASTIC PLANET
Year 2019 may well be remembered as a time when the world turned against plastic. We have seen too many pivotal pictures of plastic waste
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