Budget 2008 from a political economy perspective
To my reckoning this is the first time that
Finance Minister of Sri Lanka, and in this case the Head of State
himself, invited the people of the State or country to join hands to
achieve the most significant developmental goal of economic growth.
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Terrorism: A global menace challenging democracies
The challenge remains and it is enormous. The
LTTE raises funds mainly in Western countries through various means,
including intimidation and extortion, the narcotics trade, human
trafficking and arms smuggling.
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A poet in between
Among the popular children’s poems in Sinhala -
I refuse to call them nursery rhymes - there is one which continues
to be sung by each generation since the late twenties of the
twentieth century.
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