BUSINESS AFFAIRS
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Sep- 2019 -1 September
EXTERNAL ECONOMY
Sri Lanka registered a current account surplus in the first quarter of this year. This was the first time in over a decade that the country realised
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1 September
THE CAPITAL MARKET
Unknown, unheralded and under-researched, because of perceptions of illiquidity and high risk, the Colombo Stock Exchange
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1 September
AGRICULTURE SECTOR
The global agriculture and food system is unsustainable in its current form. Farming practices cause environmental damage
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1 September
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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Jul- 2019 -30 July
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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30 July
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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30 July
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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30 July
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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30 July
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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1 July
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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