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Jul- 2021 -23 July
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BALANCING ACT Responding to questions during a Central Bank of Sri Lanka webinar titled ‘State of the Economy, Challenges and Outlook...
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Jun- 2021 -25 June
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WHAT A WORLD! The fact that COVID-19 will not disappear into thin air until the world as a whole reaches herd immunity seems not to
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Apr- 2021 -30 April
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THE VIGIL Sri Lanka’s 4/21 was commemorated by a call to observe a two minutes’ silence on the morning of that fateful day two years ago and amid growing frustration…
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Mar- 2021 -26 March
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THE COVID ECONOMY It came as no surprise when the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) announced in mid-March that Sri Lanka’s economy contracted by 3.6 percent last year although…
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Feb- 2021 -26 February
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STATE OF MIND “Faced with new realities of working from home, temporary unemployment, home schooling of children, and a lack of physical contact with other family members, friends and colleagues,…
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Jan- 2021 -29 January
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A NATION ON EDGE The stock market reached for the skies, business confidence fast tracked its way up north and news of the first consignment of COVID-19 vaccines – a…
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Dec- 2020 -27 December
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE It is a common courtesy to wish everyone a ‘happy new year’ – indeed, ‘happiness’ must be at the top of our wish lists as we…
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Nov- 2020 -20 November
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BUDGET BOMBSHELL The wide-ranging and highly ambitious budget proposals presented by the prime minister to parliament on 17 November – in which national security, road and tech development, healthcare and…
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Oct- 2020 -22 October
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BUDGET 2021 The fiscal goalposts have shifted considerably in the wake of the ever spreading Minuwangoda factory cluster
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Sep- 2020 -17 September
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BUDGET BLUES It isn’t unusual for a post-election budget to take away some of the sweeteners
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