Opinion: Time for a better capitalism
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 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 …
By Shang-Jin Wei Developing Asia is poised to grow at 6 percent this year, a slight uptick from the 5.8 percent figure in 2015, but looking ahead, five major …
By W.A. Wijewardena The Central Bank has issued a clarification on the Monetary Board’s alleged failure to publish the annual reports of the EPF after 2012, …
By Steve Brice Global markets have had a rather rocky start to the year, to put it mildly. An indicator of global stocks has fallen 19 per cent from their …
By Joseph E. Stiglitz COLOMBO – Sri Lanka has been deservedly praised for the progress it has made since the end of the war against the separatist Tamil …
By Ashini Samarasinghe Where economic performance is concerned, Sri Lanka tends to emphasize on the importance of economic growth or GDP growth over other …
By Dushni Weerakoon, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka The direction of Sri Lanka’s post-civil war socio-political and economic development took a …