Conspiracy theories over evidence: A review of Power and Power (2014)
Sept 01, 2014 (LBO) I was among the throngs at the launch of a book by Minister Patali Ranawaka few weeks back. The auditorium was packed. There were …
Sept 01, 2014 (LBO) I was among the throngs at the launch of a book by Minister Patali Ranawaka few weeks back. The auditorium was packed. There were …
Aug 04, 2014 (LBO) I agree with the Minister of Technology and Research that we need a lot more discussion about economic strategy. I’ve been pleading for …
June 16, 2014 (LBO) - It has been almost ten years since one in 600 Sri Lankans died, unwarned of a tsunami that took 90 minutes to get to our shores and even …
June 9, 2014 (LBO) Government-owned monopoly telephone companies did not connect 100 percent of households anywhere in the world. But in Sri Lanka, the …
May 26, 2014 (LBO) We believe that micro enterprises are important. If they succeed, they become small businesses and then medium enterprises. That is how …
Apr 07, 2014 (LBO) - Michael Porter has been one of the most successful business theorists. It could even be said that certain parts of business curricula were …
Feb 10, 2014 (LBO) - SriLankan Airlines is expected to lose 25 billion rupees in 2013-14. In the previous year, it lost 22 billion rupees. This annual loss by …
Feb 06, 2014 (LBO) Each violent death is one too many. When it is senseless, when the victim is innocent,young and full of potential it hurts even more. When …
Feb 02, 2014 (LBO) - On the morning of the first Sunday of February 2014 I felt as though the ground I stood on suddenly disappeared. I learned from a tweet …
Dec 23, 2013 (LBO) - I travel on a Sri Lanka passport. The hassle is so great that I regret not getting another passport. My life was made simpler, for a short …
Nov 14, 2013 (LBO) - My children made their own decisions on what to study and where. But when I found that my son was about to complete his undergraduate …
Nov 11, 2013 (LBO) I was in Fiji a few weeks back. Opening the morning paper, I was struck by a news story which said that the productivity of the Suva and …
Sept 20, 2013 (LBO) - One of the worst things this administration has done is double the size of the government work force. buy elavil online …
Aug 29, 2013 (LBO) - The following was written as a framing document for the 49th LBO-LBR CEO Forum, held on 27th August 2013. How would you reimagine higher …
Aug 27, 2013 (LBO) I grew up in nationalistic times. The talk was of prosperity driven by oil from Pesalai and fertilizer from Eppawala. We were told that we …
Aug 13, 2013 (LBO) - I had a civilized debate on Facebook with a good friend on whether Chinese ownership of the new container terminal at the just inaugurated …
July 18, 2013 (LBO) - The Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) is my favorite among all the surveys done by the government. Where else do you get …
July 01, 2013 (LBO) Three days in Shanghai is surely not enough to understand what makes China tick. But as I sit in the new Pudong International Airport …
May 29, 2013 (LBO) - There is an argument being made in the rich parts of Colombo. It is not being articulated in words, but in deeds. The Navy is running …
May 06, 2013 (LBO) - In early March 2013, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) announced a public consultation as part of its decision making …