Tea is Sri Lanka’s largest agricultural export and fetched $1.02 billion in 2007‚ its third highest foreign exchange earner after garments and remittances from Sri Lankans working abroad. The country is not likely to achieve its 2008 revenue and production targets‚ after demand and prices for Sri Lankan tea tumbled in the last quarter‚ with the slowdown possibly extending into 2009‚ Lalith Hettiarachchi‚ the head of Sri Lanka Tea Board‚ told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Production this year
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“As the Government Agent of the District I was gazetted as a Deputy Director for Cooperative Development. This had been done with the idea of the Government Agent supervising the Assistant Commissioner of Cooperatives and the work of the Cooperative Department in the District for the purpose of implementing the agricultural development programme. I usurped the full powers of a Deputy Director of Cooperatives and ordered the President of the Morawaka Cooperative Union to use funds available with
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marketers viewpoint 14 Appendices Table 1: fluctuations of the tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka during the civil war Table 2: International tourist arrivals % changes for the first 4 months of 2010 Table 3: Accommodation Capacity (Rooms) in Graded Establishments and its Regional Distribution - 1999 to 2008 Table 4: Direct Employment in the Tourist Industry - 2006 to 200861967 Table 5: Tourist arrival by month in Sri Lanka 11 11 11 12 12 13 15 References 16 Declaration 14 15 1 TASK
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SRI LANKA Macroeconomics analysis Section C Group 4 Akhil Jain – 2C Anuj Agarwal – 6C Pranav Arora – 30C Shraddha Jha – 45C Vaibhav Srivastava -53C Vinit Patil – 55C INDEX 1. Overview 2. Macroeconomic Performance Indicators 3. Macroeconomic Challenge 1 4. Recommended solution to Macroeconomic challenge 1 5. Macroeconomic Challenge 2 6. Recommended solution to Macroeconomic challenge 2 7. Macroeconomic Challenge 3 8. Recommended solution
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In the short story “funny boy” Adrian and ___ are discriminated against for different reasons in their culture. Adrian‚ while being homosexual‚ and ___ for being black and taking care of Adrian. In this time period‚ it was still universially accepted and common for people to be against gays and blacks. In many instances‚ they are both discriminated against. In Adrian’s case‚ he was discriminated against for being gay and having AIDS‚which was generally associated with homosexuals. He lived in
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SECTION-B 5TH MARCH 2014 PERSONAL AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES IN “FUNNY BOY” In Shyam Selvadurai’s novel “Funny Boy”‚ a boy’s growth into adolescence is set against stringent heteronormative society and escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka. There is no watertight structure to say whether one’s national identity governs one’s personal identity or vice versa‚ or for that matter‚ that there is no difference between the two. The novel “Funny Boy” carefully traces questions of identity at the individual
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Abstract On the whole‚ this paper gives an analysis on the impact of globalization on Sri Lanka and further examines the industrialization experience in Sri Lanka following the market-oriented policy transformation instigated in 1977‚ while emphasizing on the establishment of trade Policies including Foreign-Direct-Investments (FDI). Moreover‚ this paper recognizes that policy alterations have positively played a key role in converting a primary-product-exporting economy to an economy which manufactures
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Inflation Management through the Interest Rate Channel in Sri Lanka 1. Introduction Monetary policy comprises the rules and actions adopted by the central banks to achieve their objectives. In most countries the primary objective of the monetary policy is price stability. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has two core objectives: (1) maintaining price and economic stability and (2) maintaining financial system stability (Central Bank of Sri Lanka 2012‚ ‘About the Bank’‚ para. 1). To attain the objective
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Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian Ocean‚ also often called the “The Pearl of the Indian Ocean”. Tourism in Sri Lanka has had its ups and downs. Such things like the civil war is now over‚ but for the past thirty years that the war was ongoing‚ a lot of people feared to travel to Sri Lanka and the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami . But despite all these events‚ the tourism in Sri Lanka is still one of the major profit generating industries. Sri Lanka may be a small island‚ but it has a
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Sri Lanka after thirty years of war; the achievements so far and the challengers ahead For nearly three decades‚ Sri Lanka has been scarred by a bitter civil war driven by ethnic tensions. In May 2009‚ the Government of Sri Lanka announced a decisive military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE or Tamil Tigers). The war claimed thousands of deaths and tensions between ethnic groups remain high. If left to simmer below the surface‚ these tensions could threaten the fragile
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