Energy infrastructure has garnered its own place in the international politics discourse. South Asia over the years has become a fertile ground for several hydropower and gas projects. With this, it has brought new conflicts in limelight an...
Business will not be the same in the city as institutions would have to be wary of not toeing the line. This will naturally dissuade investors, especially foreign investors who do not wish to get caught up in the political and legal crossfi...
China has recently declared that its economy is once more on the path to recovery after dealing with the shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the Chinese government being known for its want to propagate false information and conce...
In the next five years, Sri Lanka is striding on a economic vision plan to achieve a export target of $20 billion dollars. The country’s export performance had recovered after the slump in the years 2015 and 2016 to US$ 16.4 billion do...
The ocean is vital for the economy and food production for small islands like Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and to the coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent. In the neighbouring countries of India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, over 16 million ...
The COVID- 19 pandemic first appeared in Wuhan, Hubei - China and has spread worldwide, causing unprecedented suffering in human history, affecting human life, and ushering in severe economic recession worldwide. While vaccines have not bee...
Energy self-sufficiency has gained renewed importance among small island states such as Sri Lanka and the Maldives in the past few decades. Sri Lanka is the fourth largest electricity-producing nation in South Asia. On the other ...
The visually appealing Colombo city skyline has experienced dramatic change in the past few years, surrounded by iconic skyscrapers, high-rise residential condominiums and construction cranes hovering in different parts of the&nbs...
After more than two months of coronavirus-induced lockdown India’s closest neighbour, Sri Lanka, is slowly easing its lockdowns across cities. Following the deadly coronavirus epidemic in Sri Lanka, nearly 1024 have so...
Our world at present has been withstanding the pernicious coronavirus and the ramifications have been felt on the world economies, their financial sector and the healthcare facilities[i]. COVID-19 has rattled the economic and the social wel...
There is an expectation that coronavirus pandemic would be under control to a certain degree. Sri Lanka needs to look at effective structural adjustment programs (SAP) to spur the overall economic growth. However, if the coronavir...
The term ‘bank’ originates from the Italian word ‘banco’ meaning bench. During the renaissance, moneylenders carried out most of their transactions over these benches, and since then they have become symbolic of banks, and other fin...
