Traffic fatalities in Sri Lanka: Six a day
Apr 17, 2012 (LBO) – The headline of a popular Sinhala language daily on 16 April 2012 screamed that 18 people had died in road accidents over the three …
Choices
Sri Lanka Tsunami risk reduction in the age of Twitter
Apr 12, 2012 (LBO) – In theory, national governments should issue tsunami watches and warnings. For sure, they should be the only ones issuing evacuation …
Evidence and leadership in transport policy: Sri Lanka and Canada
Mar 26, 2012 (LBO) – I like the fact that the present government gets things done. The planning for the Southern Expressway started in 1988. It was …
Improving Sri Lanka’s airport experience
Mar 05, 2012 (LBO) – With some difficulty, given high hotel prices and uncertainty around visas, we organized a regional workshop that drew participants …
Sri Lanka telecom reform: positive externalities
Jan 30, 2012 (LBO) – Reforms have costs. In any system, there are those who benefit from the status quo. Former President Kumaratunge once said in a …
How not to do public policy: Messy visa changes in Sri Lanka
Nov 25, 2011 (LBO) – In most countries, visa fees are set through subordinate legislation. In Sri Lanka, it comes in the National Budget, read by the …
Travel freedom for Sri Lankans
Nov 23, 2011 (LBO) – Recently, the Government of Sri Lanka announced that it will charge 50 US dollars per person from every foreigner entering Sri …
Sri Lanka’s expropriation bill as BATNA
Nov 06, 2011 (LBO) – The government is paying a price for advancing a bill to expropriate private enterprises at a time when it wants to attract more …
Resurgence of Sri Lanka’s North Central Province
Oct 17, 2011 (LBO) – For the longest time, the provinces fell out in the following pattern: the Western Province in the lead; the Central, North Western …
Poverty: Where should Sri Lanka focus resources?
Oct 10, 2011 (LBO) – I was asked by a major charitable organization to help set the stage for their thinking on strategic direction. Mine is just a minor …
Open-source policy formulation for Sri Lanka’s capital
Sept 12, 2011 (LBO) – Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable, are known as software. Software is complex. One set of instructions can …
Sri Lanka water management: Multiple choice
Aug 08, 2011 (LBO) – It is said that inland reservoirs cover one tenth of Sri Lanka’s land area. Sri Lanka may possibly be the country with the …
Sri Lanka tolls without thought: Backed up traffic and black money
July 18, 2011 (LBO) – There is a reason for applying expertise to major infrastructure projects. The costs of ill-planned actions are very high; and the …
Sri Lanka IT and ITES: Cheap is not enough
July 06, 2011 (LBO) – I moderated a session on IT and BPO industries at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit. True moderation is not time keeping and turn …
Sri Lanka’s ITES Sector: People are still the problem
July 4, 2011 (LBO) – In post-war Sri Lanka the hopes placed on IT enabled services (made up of software exports and business process outsourcing (BPO) …
Sri Lanka sports: Ice hockey, cricket and money
June 17, 2011 (LBO) – I felt like writing a column on a subject that would surprise everyone. Ice hockey. But not only ice hockey . . . I used to live in …
Sri Lanka tourism: Of MICE and Patel points
June 13, 2011 (LBO) – I was asked to comment on a paper that looks at the potential of India as a source of tourists. Here are the key points. The key to …
Sri Lanka disaster risk reduction
Apr 18, 2011 (LBO) – The cruel paradox of disaster risk reduction is that the more lives you save, the more people with destroyed livelihoods there will …
Sri Lanka’s mobilephobia and health
Mar 17, 2011 (LBO) – Recently, a student at a Sri Lankan university died. According to reports, he had gone to the third floor of a university residence …
Sri Lanka’s confusing investment signals
Feb 21, 2010 (LBO) – I am often asked about how Sri Lanka is doing after the war. How much investment has come in, now that the LTTE monkey is off our …