This paper uses data from rural surveys in Nicaragua and Sri Lanka that are specially designed to measure the many facets of the investment climate and their effect on enterprise performance and entrepreneurship selection. In regard to entrepreneurship selection, in Nicaragua, household characteristics are more important than investment climate features; in Sri Lanka, both factors are roughly e...

BACKGROUND Rickettsioses are emerging infections in Sri Lanka as shown by the increase in the number of clinically diagnosed rickettsial patients being reported to the Epidemiology Unit, Sri Lanka. However, mapping the disease for the whole island with laboratory confirmed cases has not been previously carried out. METHODS 615 samples received from 23 hospital representing 8 provinces were te...

A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the current prevalence of leptospirosis and hantaviral infections, and the socio-demographic characteristics and risk factors of infected patients, in Kandy, Sri Lanka. This report discusses the serological evidence of hantavirus infections among 105 suspected leptospirosis patients, 8 of whom had hantavirus antibodies. Serotyping ELISA showed...

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian subcontinent with approximately 21 million people [1]. The country has been recently identified as a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) based on World Bank ratings with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3800 USD in 2015 [1, 2]. With an excellent human development index, Sri Lanka boasts of excellent health indicators on par with high income countri...

This study examines the dynamic relationships between stock market performance and the interest rates in Sri Lanka during June 2004 to April 2011. We use all share price index in the Colombo stock exchange as a measure of stock market performance indicator and Sri Lanka interbank offer rate as a measure of interest rate. We employ some conventional time series econometric techniques namely Unit...

Cats are essential in the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii because they are the only hosts that can excrete the environmentally resistant oocysts in nature. Nothing is known of the prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in cats from Sri Lanka. Serum samples from 86 cats from Colombo, Sri Lanka, were tested for antibodies to T. gondii using the modified agglutination test; antibodies were found in 26 (3...

An under-sea earthquake near the west coast of Northern Sumatra set off a series of other earthquakes in December 2004 and led to a widespread disaster, Tsunami 2004. Sri Lanka faced one of the worst natural disasters with a large proportion of losses in housing and infrastructure. The developing countries are less able to face the impacts of disasters and so it is imperative to develop the inf...

W . P. DE SUVA Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sri Lanka, Colombo Campus. SUMMARY The annual figures for deaths from suicide in Sri Lanka greatly exceed the total of sudden deaths due to homicide and accidents. A study of the suicide pattern in Sri Lanka indicates that the rate has risen sharply over the past two decades. The rate for the island has surpassed the ra...

0494 On 26 December 2004, Sri Lanka was affected, along with many other countries in the region, by deadly tsunami waves. The estimated death toll in Sri Lanka was more than 40,000; many more thousands of people were missing and displaced. Sri Lanka had not experienced a disaster of such magnitude in its 2,000 years of recorded history. The administrative, health, and judicial services were sim...

This paper examines the available published literature on the post-conflict and tsunami disaster mental health concerns in Sri Lanka. By identifying relevant findings from literature published near the end of the war in 2009 and onwards, important gaps in mental health research and resources can be assessed. PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO were assessed to identify all published articles a...