Why isn't agriculture sustaining RURAL poor?

Efforts to improve agricultural productivity in Sri Lanka relies primarily on policy changes to liberalize prices, exchange rates, and trade. Important as they are, it is increasingly clear that price changes alone are insufficient to stimulate agricultural production without supporting improvements in research, extension, and marketing.

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Sri Lanka Rights Watch

Overcoming inadequacies without inflicting them on others

One of the most depressing features of the authorities is the readiness with which transfers are used to solve problems. At the Education Consultative Committee in Parliament, some of my colleagues pointed out what seemed to them grave faults in Principals or Zonal Directors of Education, and recommended that they should be transferred at once. They were startled when I said that would be wrong, but then acknowledged that, if the officials concerned were unsatisfactory, it would be destructive to transfer them to other responsibilities where they would also prove unsatisfactory.

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The Rajpal Abeynayake COLUMN

FASHION UNCONCIOUS – A REQUIEM FOR GLF 2013

The 2013 Galle Literary Festival is not being held. Certainly, not yet – and there has been an official announcement that the organizers will be suspending the event for one year, something which some keen observers say, is tantamount to a kiss of death.

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