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 and …
Opinion
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 contradict …
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 greatest …
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 costs …
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. buy levofloxacin online …
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) are …
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. online pharmacy buy cipro with best prices today in the USA Ice …
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 be. …
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 hall …
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 backs. I …
Sri Lanka’s floods, dam breaks and senior ministers
Jan 24, 2011 (LBO) - On one side the big story is about the floods. On the other side is the political debate around “Senior Ministers.” Are they …
Sri Lanka universities live up to their billing: Reject PhDs and hire non-PhDs
Dec 24, 2010 (LBO) - In a recent column on the failure of Sri Lankan universities, I said that: Faculty select their successors.Poor-quality faculty will …
Sri Lanka’s visa changes
Nov 01, 2010 (LBO) - I keep getting asked about when Sri Lanka will change its visa policies. The out-of-the-blue announcement that visitors from all countries …
Sri Lanka Central Bank, retrospect 1950 to 2010
Sept 27, 2010 (LBO) - In the modern era, the best recorders of history, as and when the important events occur, are the newspapers. But it is seldom that one …
“Restart” Sri Lanka university faculty
Sept 21, 2010 (LBO) - When all else fails in a modern computer, we hit “restart.” The machine powers down, clears all kinds of dysfunctions from the system …
Sri Lanka university fees reduced
Aug 30, 2010 (LBO) - The Minister of Higher Education has been quoted in the media as planning to reduce the fees charged from foreign students wishing to …
Sri Lanka central bank-run fund’s investment debate
Aug 23, 2010 (LBO) - An interesting public debate has sprung between the Central Bank and an opposition parliamentarian on the suitability of Bank’s …
Sri Lanka economist with many faces: H N S Karunathilake
July 26, 2010 (LBO) - A scientist normally belongs to a single school of thought. He would follow the traditions, views and methods of that school to the …