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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 …

Sri Lanka central banker writes on good money and bad

July 16, 2010 (LBO)- Ex-central bankers seldom write books on their experiences. Perhaps, the fear of re living the traumatic experiences they would have …

Sri Lanka price floor for mobile calls

July 12, 2010 (LBO) - It is not the responsibility of a regulatory agency to ensure the profitability of telecom operators. Yet, when every single operator in …

Sri Lanka ITES; the problem is people

July 5, 2010 (LBO) - Although Sri Lanka was not known for exports of IT and business processing services, since 2005 this activity has graduated to earn around …

Sri Lanka private universities; do not rush and spoil the soup

May 25, 2010 (LBO) - The announcement by the new Minister of Higher Education, Hon S.B Disssanayake, on assuming office and in subsequent interviews, that the …

Sri Lanka’s infrastructure; a tale of two cities

May 18, 2010 (LBO) - Coming from Brasilia to waterlogged Colombo was a shock. Brazil is still not a developed economy, but its capital, Brasilia, definitely …