How neoliberal globalization is shaping early childhood education policies in India, China, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Globalization and Industrial Relations in Sri Lanka

Foreign Aid vs. Economic Development: Exploring the Empirical Linkage for India, Sri Lanka and Maldives

This study empirically examines the causal relationships between foreign aid (ODA) and economic development for India and Sri Lanka using the annual data 1960-61 to 2010-11. Both India and Sri Lanka need to maintain high growth to create more employment opportunity and to reduce poverty. Considering the long run causal linkage among foreign aid, trade performance, financial sector development, ...

Childhood Malaria in Sri Lanka

This study describes some clinical and epidemiological features of childhood malaria in a moderately endemic area of southern Sri Lanka. Six hundred and sixty-two children, who experienced 1,138 attacks of malaria, and 172 children, who experienced 202 attacks of acute non-malarial fever, were followed over a period of two years. Of the 1,138 malaria infections followed, 776 were due to P. viva...

How E-Ready is E-Sri Lanka?

S First, this paper assesses e-readiness of Sri Lanka using a measuring tool that utilizes 52 socio-economic indicators. Second, based on the assessment, this paper suggests methods for improving e-readiness of Sri Lanka. The uniqueness of this paper lies in the quantitative analysis of the e-readiness of Sri Lanka, whereas many other works engage in qualitative exposure.

Description of a new species of rabbitfish (Perciformes: Siganidae) from southern India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Siganus insomnis sp. nov. is described from the Maldives, Sri Lanka and southern India. It most closely resembles S. lineatus (Valenciennes) from the Western Pacific but differs in coloration, principally in that most if not all of the bronze bands on its mid and upper sides continue horizontally and unbroken through to the nape and opercular slit. By contrast, in S. lineatus, typically the ant...