Posts or telecom: Sri Lanka’s dysfunctional communications family
Oct 08, 2007 (LBO) - It’s a strange question. It has always been Posts AND Telecom, even back in the bad old days when it was an inconsequential Ministry …
Oct 08, 2007 (LBO) - It’s a strange question. It has always been Posts AND Telecom, even back in the bad old days when it was an inconsequential Ministry …
Sept 10, 2007 (LBO) - Once Parliament figures out what really happened when the taxation provisions were supposedly debated and passed on the 6th of …
Sept 03, 2007 (LBO) - Taxes are necessary. The consistent theme of the “Choices” columns has been that choices have to be made; that one cannot have …
July 18, 2007 (LBO) - Recently the JVP trade union in the hotel industry put up posters asking for prompt government action to address the crisis in the hotel …
June 22, 2007(LBO) - A little over a year ago, I wrote a column called “The Sri Lankan state: Failed, failing or maligned?” It was about a comparative …
June 12, 2007 (LBO) - The theme of this column has been public policy about infrastructure. online pharmacy buy abilify with best prices today in the USA …
May 17, 2007 (LBO) - The theme of the 2007 World Telecom and Information Society Day (May 17th) is connecting the young. It is difficult to connect the …
March 28, 2007 (LBO) - It seems like a no-brainer: A mobile phone is better than a fixed phone, especially in Sri Lanka. The costs of getting a connection …
March 08, 2007 (LBO) - Indonesia, like Sri Lanka, sends its women to foreign lands to work as housemaids. online pharmacy buy spiriva with best prices today …
January 29, 2007 (LBO) -- What shall we make of the new 52-member, multi-party Cabinet (depicted in Figure 1) sworn in on January 28th, 2007? Source: News …
January 4, 2007 (LBO) – It appears that the government of Sri Lanka is getting back into the airline business that it exited in 1998. According to the …
December 3, 2006 (LBO) – Recently, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission issued an order setting the maximum price that could be charged for an SMS at …
November 22, 2006 (LBO) – The Colombo-Habarana Road is a military supply route. Those driving on it are likely to come across slow moving convoys of army …
November 15, 2006 (LBO) – At a recent discussion on comparative rankings of economic performance, an esteemed economist decried the tendency of Sri …
October 23, 2006 (LBO) - Recently the government imposed tougher import conditions on non-essential items: …
October 16, 2006 (LBO) - "While the JVP supports a vibrant free market economy to generate growth, we are completely against an unbridled, uncontrolled open …
August 28, 2006 (LBO) – In a discussion of two pieces of trade-related legislation now before Parliament, a JVP MP stated that they served the interests of …
August 7, 2006 (LBO) – Generic is cheap and utilitarian. Brand is expensive and status conferring. That's the common wisdom. But those in the new, hot field …
July 25, 2006 (LBO) - The 2004 tsunami was a shock. One out of 500 Sri Lankans died in the short space of three and a half hours when walls of water hit them …
July 24, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka is seeking urgent help to evacuate workers trapped in Lebanon, despite the vast majority of its estimated 80,000 nationals …