New Direction of Japanese ODA

The development strategy of Sri Lanka has been successful in raising the standard of its social indicators, but has not been successful in achieving the growth and has failed especially from the viewpoint of the equitable distribution of the outcome of the growth.

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Thoughtful Glimpses

Effectiveness: everybody’s dilemma

People just go about doing things but do they realise they are wasting valuable resources, including time, in not being focused on a particular purpose or an objective? It is meaningless, therefore, to be asking people to be ‘efficient’, without asking them to be effective.

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Lesson from Nugegoda: The need for vigilance

The Government and the citizens of this country have to ask themselves a few questions at this point. Did we lull ourselves into believing that gains in the battlefield rendered the enemy absolutely powerless to strike elsewhere?

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