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  • Dec- 2019 -
    1 December

    WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

    The drumbeats of a global economic recession are gradually becoming more insistent. Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist

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  • 1 December

    THE GOLD STANDARD

    While its origins can be traced back to the Stone Age in the form of ring-shaped amulets, our love for and association

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  • 1 December

    EDUCATION SECTOR

    Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of implementing Sri Lanka’s free education policy, which was approved

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  • 1 December

    WATER SECURITY

    From the Murray-Darling basin in Australia, to Cape Town in South Africa and Chennai in India, there are reports of water scarcities around the world. Meanwhile,

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  • Oct- 2019 -
    28 October

    INDUSTRY 4.0

    Sri Lanka has experienced a slowdown in economic growth over the last few years. Climatic impacts on the agriculture sector, policy uncertainty, political gridlock

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  • 28 October

    BANKING SECTOR

    Banking is being progressively commoditised globally through standardisation, price transparency and easily accessible

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  • 28 October

    THE AI CHALLENGE

    Hardly any industries will not benefit from the use of AI systems. And there are suggestions that SMEs would also benefit from deploying such

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  • 28 October

    SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

    The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) developed by stakeholders including the private sector present an unprecedented opportunity to eliminate global

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  • 27 October

    AGRICULTURE SECTOR

    AGRO’S DIGITAL REVOLUTION Akila Wijerathna illustrates how IT could transform traditional agriculture Traditional agriculture is predominantly rain fed and low yielding; and it lacks access to critical information, market facilitation…

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  • 27 October

    FILM INDUSTRY

    This year marks the 72nd anniversary of local cinema, which began with the screening of a Sinhala-language film Kadawunu Poronduwa

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