White Lies
Presidential race is now in full swing with both candidates releasing their manifestoes. Presidential race is now in full swing with both candidates releasing …
Special Reports
Beyond Borders
KURUNEGALA – Failed asylum seekers living on in the United Kingdom and Europe are flocking back home to Sri Lanka, as London gets tough on illegal …
Setting Goals
Sri Lanka has already achieved some of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that seeks to halve poverty in ten years. Sri Lanka has already achieved some of …
Armchair Critics
Getting to know the movements of television viewers is becoming crucial for advertisers to find the best breaks to slot their commercials. Getting to know the …
Be Prepared
Now that elections are around the corner businesses usually take a back seat as politicians take over. Now that elections are around the corner businesses …
Naked Truth
Sri Lanka’s securities regulator is in the spotlight for excessively compounding too many cases without allowing the judicial system to voice its …
What Next?
Governments loosen the fiscal purse strings when elections are around the corner. Higher spending to create more jobs and raise salaries is common in the run …
Fashionable Economics
It was only last week that I wrote in these columns that we will soon be entertained by election time economic theories of the soon to be formed alliance …
Standing Tall
Increasing land prices and demand for houses are pushing developers to launch taller building projects and even larger suburban housing projects. Increasing …
Pot Hole Ahead
George Bush is at fault I guarantee that the Mahinda Rajapakse (and perhaps Wimal Weerawansa) campaign will come up with some colourful economics arguments …
Warm Up
Banks have to do dummy runs in calculating their credit and operational risk according to a roadmap on the implementation of new minimum capital rules agreed …
We’re Watching
The Sethusamudram canal set to be operational from 2008 will give a continuous navigable route around the Indian peninsular linking the west coast of India …
Jump In
Top Indian banker and one of the most influential business people in the world according to Fortune magazine and the Wall Street Journal, Naina Kidwai, says …
Change or Perish
Is Apple’s cool ipod, which has been sold by the hundreds of thousands and created a new business line for company doomed? Is Apple’s cool ipod, …
Staying Put
Incumbent fixed line and data operator SLT recently faced a string of problems including a court ruling that overturned a tariff hike and delays in getting a …
Hullo, Hullo
After decades of waiting, telephones have finally begun ringing in villages and rural areas across Sri Lanka. After decades of waiting, telephones have finally …
Who Cares?
Central Bank on right track; Treasury caught lying! Those of you regular readers might recall my congratulatory message to the Central Bank a couple of months …
Villages on the Edge
Academics and students of the Colombo University are putting theory into practice to uplift living standards of people living in the North Western Province. …
Coming Together
Two years after the process started, NDB and its commercial banking arm NDB Bank announced the companies will merge next month, after parliament amended the …
The ‘Red’ Tape
A fishing community in Kirinda, in Southern Sri Lanka, could lose their livelihood as their harbor is filling up with sand brought in by the tides. A fishing …