Opinion: Investing in an increasingly uncertain world
By Alexis Calla As savers and investors, most of us concern ourselves with the short-term. And these days, the short-term concerns have been keeping us quite …
By Alexis Calla As savers and investors, most of us concern ourselves with the short-term. And these days, the short-term concerns have been keeping us quite …
By Lancelot Reports on Lanka Business Online indicate that Sri Lanka has decided to choose Light Rail Transit over a Monorail system, and that Japan has …
By Lancelot Being a Sri Lankan who has lived abroad, I have made several dozen trips to the Department of Immigration and Emigration over the past decade. I …
Jul 05, 2016 (LBO) – I long for a Sri Lanka where our animals enjoy the same freedom and protection from fear and harm as people do, and are respected and …
By Channa de Silva If a country is to achieve the vision of financial inclusivity, such is the case in Sri Lanka, establishment and adoption of electronic …
By Rajul Awasthi Tax administrations in developing countries are increasingly concerned about the persistent problem of loss of tax revenues to the shadow …
By Henry Blodget Over the past few decades, the US economy has undergone a profound change. This change has helped rich Americans get richer. But it has also …
By Arosha Jayasundera It is revealing to see how Sri Lanka fares in the global business sector. According to the World Competitiveness Index, Sri Lanka ranks …
By Steve Brice There is a growing perception that monetary policy is losing its power to solve the world’s economic problems. This may be misleading. What is …
By Dinesh Jebamani Evolution of Social media and growth in mobile internet has resulted in the need for marketing strategies to change. The images below shows …
By Chami Akmeemana and Evan Stubbs As the technology that creates a distributed ledger, blockchain is creating significant waves of disruption in …
By J. Lorenz May 16, 2016 (LBO)- During the 2005 -2015 period Sri Lanka’s privatisation programme came to a halt, and there was a wave of expansion in state …
By Arosha Jayasundera According to the Hakett Group, USA, there is a strong correlation between consistent use of business best practices and the ability to …
By Oxford Business Group Consistently ranked as a top global destination for business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT, Sri Lanka’s tech services industry …
By Arosha Jayasundera To be in a state of bliss is great, when you happily chug along at your own pace. But how long can it last? In the absence of benchmarks, …
By Zahran Sikkanther Lebbe Sri Lanka’s rapidly ageing population poses serious challenges on several fronts. Selected socio-economic challenges of this …
By Mithula Guganeshan The new tech buzz word, Internet of Things, is all about connecting data, people, machines and processes using sensors attached to …
By J. Lorenz March 24, 2016 (LBO) - Two common developing country problems are pollution and lack of power and power resources. As Sri Lankans we have learned …
By Subhashini Abeysinghe Apparel is the single most important export of Sri Lanka. With export earnings of US$ 4.7 billion, apparel accounted for 42% of total …
By Dinesh Jebamani Today we need to innovate in the way we want to communicate and interact with our community who we consider as customers, prospects or …