Although Sri Lanka performs well in most health indicators, child nutrition is still a major challenge.  Sri Lanka Human Development Report 2012 revealed that poor nutrition is the chief cause of multidimensional poverty, accounting for 30 perce

On March 5, 2018, the Sri Lankan government mandated a state of emergency for 10 days following riots and a wave of targeted violence against Muslims in the city of Kandy. 

In the last two weeks we have been discussing about some ‘buzzwords’ in customer relationship management (CRM). We continue with few other terms.

Despite some politicized rhetoric and limited debates on the far fringes of the global scientific community, all of humanity’s scientific experience and observations have proved beyond any shred of a doubt that climate change is not a myth, and

The efforts to increase domestic and foreign investment in Sri Lanka’s pharmaceuticals industry is set to boost output and broaden the sector’s product range, bringing the country closer to the government’s goal of self-sufficiency

The backbiting and enduring state of chaos over the past three months within our corridors of power points to what should be a watershed year for Sri Lankan voters and even business. Our country’s multifaceted leadership has been entirely immer

Sri Lanka aims to be a rich country by the next decade by transforming this beautiful island nation into the hub of the Indian Ocean, added with a knowledge-based highly competitive economy. 

We continue with the content management, which we discussed in detail last week. Today, we will concentrate on another important aspect of content management – personalized content.

Sri Lanka and Singapore signed the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) on January 23, 2018. This is a comprehensive free trade agreement which covers goods, services, e-commerce, telecommunications, foreign direct investment, intellectu

Digital transformation has generated a fierce debate among policymakers, economists and business leaders about the societal impact it would make, specifically on jobs. According to a global survey, about 80 percent of current jobs globally are tipped

Mahinda Rajapaksa-backed joint opposition yesterday submitted a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to the speaker. The motion against Wickremesinghe, according newspapers, contains charges of economic mismanagement by hi

HSBC has always been in the forefront of Sri Lanka’s growth story—may it be funding the big infrastructure projects, raising funds for the government in the 

Economic reforms have become an urgent need for Sri Lanka, with successive governments since independence, resorting to short-term, politically expedient economic strategies that have placed considerable macroeconomic pressures whilst reducing Sri La

Paul Polman, Global CEO of Unilever, the world’s largest consumer goods company, told us recently about his personal mission to be a force for good instead of just making a profit and how Unilever is able to serve all their stakeholders as a re

The global financial system is in a frail state. Global debt reached a record high of US $ 233 trillion in the third quarter of 2017. The global debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has grown beyond expectations since the 2007–08 global f

The 19th Party Congress set out the principles that will define the approach to what Deng Xiaoping described as the third phase of China’s modern economic development. This is the phase when China seeks to achieve income levels on par with the

A news item in the Daily Mirror of March 15, 2018, titled ‘Private Co. grabs Muturajawela land for housing scheme’, has caused alarm to environmentalists who feel that the rich biodiversity of this wetland would result in irreparable and

In the influx of changing business priorities and competition in banks across the world, the greatest emerging risk for banks could be on account of the waning role clarity between ‘Risk taking function (RTF)’ and ‘Risk Control func

Peter Drucker was an Austrian author of numerous economics and economics-related literature and a Professor of Management. He once said, “The purpose of a business is to create customers.”

The results of Sri Lanka’s local government elections held on February 10, 2018 are causing unexpected political turmoil in the country. The resounding electoral performance of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s newly-formed party, Sri

Looking back over its past three years in management, common belief holds that the government needs to get its priorities right. The unfortunate events of Kandy and its enduring aftermath are a culmination of mismanagement of affairs by the powers th

The International Women’s Day is always an important marker in my calendar and this year’s theme ‘Press For Progress’ couldn’t be more exciting.

Armed with a new strategic plan, National Development Bank PLC’s (NDB) new Director/CEO Dimantha Seneviratne says he and his team are ready to take the bank to the next level and transform NDB to one of the systemically important private sector

The situation in Kandy shamefully took a deeper communal turn after the attacks on the religious sites and shops in the Digana and Teldeniya areas in Kandy. After 30 years of war, we, Sri Lankans, have still not learnt that we should never exploit, i

Communal violence is not new in Sri Lanka and has raised its ugly head periodically since independence in 1948. 

‘Nelna’, under its agricultural arm Nelna Agri Development (Pvt.) Ltd, has cultivated 60,000 mango plants following the global good agricultural practices (GGAP), in 650 acres in the Ratnapura and Monaragala Districts. It has achieved its

In the milieu of various risks that banks encounter in financial intermediation, the broadly classified risks are (i) Credit risk (ii) Market Risk and (iii) Operational risk. Despite sufficient regulatory rigor and bank’s own integrated risk ma

Following is based on the speech delivered by Plantations Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake at the National Institute of Plantations Management (NIPM) National Symposium.

The recently concluded Sri Lanka Ceramic and Glass Symposium 2018, the seventh of its kind to be held in Sri Lanka, saw a memorable and insightful keynote delivery by the renowned MAS Holdings Chairman Mahesh Amalean.

More than half the working population in Sri Lanka consists of women. But out of the total working age population, the share of employed women is only 18 percent. At the same time, around 80 percent of the economically active women of Sri Lanka are f