The current female labour force participation rate is 36 percent, according to the 2016 fourth quarter of Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey published by the Census and Statistics Department in Sri Lanka. At present, there are 5,313,997 women who are not

The turning out of the Trincomalee oil tanks deal for India and the Hambantota port deal for China are only indicative of the massive trust deficit or leverage the two competing powers have in Sri Lanka. Relative to its size, Sri Lanka probably punch

Thomson Reuters Foundation: For four months, Achini Dinesha’s life has revolved around water – or, more precisely, the lack of it.

Asia is undergoing a demographic transition as its population is gradually aging. The economic growth in Asia and the Pacific has benefited in recent decades from a demographic dividend triggered by declining fertility rates in countries with re

There is broad consensus that women’s empowerment underpins the success of the new 2030 Agenda for Development (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)). While gender equality itself constitutes 

A transportation revolution is underway that could completely transform the oil market in the coming decades.

“The Village in the Jungle’ is different because it’s not about Us, but wholly about Them. It was very advanced in 1913, when many people in Europe were racist.” -Nick Rankin

It’s time to mainstream disaster risk management in areas impacted by flooding in South Asia. The monsoon season has again caused death and destruction across South Asia. As of this writing, more than 1,200 people have died in Bangladesh, India

Trade is more contentious now than it has been for decades. Since their heyday during the 1980s and 1990s – which saw the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the birth of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and China&rsq

Unilever Sri Lanka together with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Sri Lanka hosted a discussion on public-private sector partnerships to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at The Hilton Colombo, recently.

With the tourism boom in the recent post-war period of Sri Lanka, there has been a considerable growth in the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment of accommodation providers. This growth has been possible primarily due the strong presence of onl

More digital health interventions are needed to improve the quality of care in SMART facilities. I grew up playing in a government health centre in my home city in the central Philippines. It was where I would usually go after school with my siblings

The widespread rainfall during the past few days and the risk of landslides in the hill country are attributed to climate change. Sri Lanka has suffered worst floods and landslides a few months back and whiles still recovering from these unprecedente

Be it an individual or government, they have to plan well, if they need to accomplish something successfully. President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe recently launched the good governance government’s policy frame

Even though 35 developed countries pledged to provide 0.7 percent of its Gross National Income (GNI) to foreign aid, only six nations - the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, and Sweden - currently fulfil this obligation. 

Some may think that the Trump shock is a passing moment and the US leadership in international trade and economic policy can be quickly restored. But there is little doubt that the post-war trade regime and the primacy the multilateral order delivere

“Our vision is to make Sri Lanka a rich country by 2025. We will do so by transforming Sri Lanka into the hub of the Indian Ocean, with a knowledge-based, highly competitive, social-market economy.”

Following is the keynote speech delivered by MMBL Pathfinder Group Director Bernard Goonetilleke at the International Conference on China in South Asia/South Asia in China: OBOR and Sri Lankan Experience held in Colombo on August 30, 2017, conducted

In November 2017, there was a great deal of uncertainty about the newly elected US President Donald Trump and his approach to foreign policy. Nine months later, there is little evidence that the 

At a time when globalisation from the West appears to be in retreat, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a potent symbol of the rise of China-based globalisation.

Green Energy Champion Sri Lanka (GEC) 2017 is taking place for the second consecutive year and after the success of last year’s input, there is optimism that has been placed towards the ideal of achieving even more interest and awareness from t

Staring at the tipping point of an environmental crisis, South Asia is mute and in self-denial. Collective wisdom needs to prevail in order for climate change policies to be implemented across the region that prepare for — and prevent — t

The government has been in office for two years and its agenda to many people still seems to be disconnected from the hopes and expectations of those who elected it to office on the promise of good governance. However, the government needs to be comm

Dr. Harsha Vardhan Singh – former Director at the World Trade Organisation and currently the head of Brookings India – was a speaker at the recently concluded Sri Lanka Economic Summit, in a session on ‘Executing a Smarter Trade Str

Sri Lanka is a small market for any business, as it is a tiny island with comparatively small number of population. 

For years, IT companies were the darling of Indian stock investors and fund managers. A constantly depreciating rupee since the 1990s until recently helped in the overall business scenario by allowing clients, largely in the United States, to reduce

The nature of work in Asia and the Pacific has changed dramatically in recent decades. Labor market shifts have transformed societies, as rapid economic growth provides workers with better paying and more productive jobs.

Eighty one-year old Masako Wakamiya was inspired to learn coding and create her own app for seniors when she noticed that there was a shortage of apps aimed at them. 

India has the second largest population and is the third largest emitter of green- house gases in the world. The country has a vision of projecting sustainable development in order to alleviate poverty. One of the methods is by aiming to sell only el

The backbone of this government will be thoroughly scrutinized today. No, it has got nothing to do with quelling the seemingly endless daily protests, or the rhetoric of curbing corruption within the current regime or its predecessors.