Watch the Highlights of the Blue & Gold Hockey Sevens 2023 – Girls’ Cup Final played between Ladies’ College Colombo and Holy Family Girls’ School Wennappuwa at Royal College Grounds on the 13th of August.   Highlights Powered by NDB Bank The post HIGHLIGHTS | Ladies’ College vs Holy Family Girls’ School Wennappuwa – Blue & Gold Hockey Sevens 2023 | ...

Watch the Highlights of the Blue & Gold Hockey Sevens 2023 – Boys Cup Final played between St. Joseph’s College Colombo and St. Thomas’ College Matale at Royal College Grounds on the 13th of August.   Highlights Powered by NDB Bank The post HIGHLIGHTS | St. Joseph’s College vs St. Thomas’ College Matale – Blue & Gold Hockey Sevens 2023 | ...

DFCC Bank emerged champions of the MCA C Division 50 Overs League Cricket Tournament 2023 as they defeated Nawaloka Hospital by 7 wickets in the final of the tournament worked off today (12th August) at MCA Grounds, Colombo. After being put into bat first, Nawaloka Hospital was bowled out for just 136 runs. Dileepa Nilupul was the chief scorer for ...

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What is technopreneurship? Could it be key to strengthening business resilience in Sri Lanka? To help break it down, International Labour Organization (ILO) Sri Lanka organised a policy forum together with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka as well as key stakeholders and participants from diverse sectors to explore technopreneurship as “The Digital Path ...

Photo courtesy of The World Bank The starting point of the analysis in this article is to question the conventional approach to studying a state. The conventional approach treats the state as a concrete, self-contained entity that has attained a final status. Much of the effort to promote goals such as economic growth, social development and democracy is based on ...

Photo courtesy of Bloomberg The principal problem faced by people due to the economic crisis is of rising prices while incomes for many remain unchanged. As a result, the poverty rate has doubled from 2021 from 13% to 25%, according to the  World Bank. Inflation is a problem worldwide but global inflation in 2022 averaged only 10.1% while Sri Lanka’s ...

When Dr. Herman Daly was working at the World Bank, his assistants brought him this diagram, showing the standard firms/households model of the economy. Resources go in, products come out, GDP goes up, whoopty-doo. As Dr. Tom Murphy tells the story:Dr. Daly said: “great, now draw a box around this and label it: The Environment.” The obvious point is that ...

Jan-Erik Olson is the man associated with what is called the Stockholm Syndrome. He took four hostages during a bank robbery in 1973 and eventually the victims not only developed a bond with their captor but even defended him in court. This matter of a victim of abuse developing psychological connection with the abuser is labeled a ‘contested illness,’ because ...

Photo courtesy of The World Bank The impact of the economic crisis on the working class poor of Colombo over the past year cannot be overstated. Many of these households were already affected by the pandemic due to a loss of daily wage work following the imposition of COVID-19 lockdowns and were struggling to make ends meet when the economic crisis hit ...

Sri Lanka hasn’t exactly been at the forefront when it comes to modernizing public transportation and adopting payment mechanisms like NFC. However, this might be changing soon according to recent updates. A few days ago, LankaPay announced that People’s Bank has become the first bank to issue its two-in-one contactless debit card under the National Card Scheme. Under this program, ...

In our blogpost with Citra Social Innovation Lab, we explore the role digital and data can play in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of social safety nets (social assistance) in Sri Lanka. The benefits of delivery of benefits via bank accounts are clear and the government has indicated it will move towards this system. This is a step in the ...

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Seylan Bank hosted their premier and red customers for a special viewing of the William Webb Ellis Rugby World cup as part of the Mastercard Trophy Tour of Sri Lanka where all gathered received a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the coveted silverware up close and personal. The post WATCH – Seylan Bank event of the Mastercard Webb Ellis Trophy tour 2023 appeared first on ThePapare.com.

Hatton National Bank (HNB) secured the 2023 Dialog National Netball Championship in dominant fashion defeating Air Force 29-44 in the final at the Torrington Grounds. The star studded HNB team, representing Mercantile Netball Association, raced to a 18-9 lead at the end of the 1st quarter. At half time the score read 28-11, with HNB out scoring Air Force 10-8 ...

In the heady days of the ‘Aragalaya’ The BASL (Bar Association of Sri Lanka), the right-wing stink tank Advocate (a docile servant of the Atlas Network, an extension of the US foreign policy apparatus), would-be prophets of an economic renaissance including university dons, ex Central Bank high-ups excellently schooled in the relevant dogma and many would-be spokespersons for the ‘Aragalaya’ ...

The church I was wed in, in the shadow of luxury condos and covered in bank advertisingInReligion In Human Evolution, Robert Bellah says “Religion is a system of beliefs and practices relative to the sacred that unite those who adhere to them in a moral community.” Modern, ‘educated’, consumers don’t live in such a religious community, but we still live ...

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