Case Focus: Food Crisis in Sri Lanka Submitted by: Shyam Hari (JSIA 2012-2014) What is food Crisis?. A Food Crisis can be defined as an extreme and protracted shortage of food‚ resulting in widespread hunger and a substantial increase in the death rate. Agriculture in Sri Lanka: Agriculture in Sri Lanka mainly depends on Rice production.Sri Lanka also exports some quantity of rice every year.Sri Lankan government has setup the Department of Agriculture – Sri Lanka (DOASL).The Department main
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Agro-Tourism Development in Sri Lanka Case Study of the Fruit Crop Research and Development Center‚ Horana by D.A.C. Silva‚ Senior Lecturer‚‚ Department of Economics‚ Faculty of Arts‚ University of Colombo and K.C. Vithanage‚ MEcon Student‚ Department of Economics‚ University of Colombo ABSTRACT Tourism is one of the largest and the fastest growing industries in the world economy. Tourism industry is also the fourth highest foreign exchange generator of the economy in Sri Lanka. Furthermore‚ agro-tourism
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a developed country. When considering about the Sri Lanka‚ Sri Lanka is not considered as an economically developed country. Total income of Sri Lanka should be increase to become a developed country. Health facilities and education facilities in Sri Lanka are at a reasonable level. Establishing of free education increased the level of literacy in Sri Lanka. It will be a great benefit for the development of Sri Lanka. Computer literacy in Sri Lanka is also at a
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Synopsis for topic – 3 Importance of Introducing Tamil as a second language for Sri Lanka Army We have been in a war for a period of more than 3 decades. Approximately 95% of the battle zone is located within Tamil speaking territory. Few hundred thousand civilians are living in this territory. Most of them are Tamil speaking and directly affected by the fighting. There were number of offensive missions and humanitarian missions that had been carried out in this area in order to maintain law
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proposed independent statethat Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora aspire to create in the north and east of Sri Lanka. Tamil Eelam has no official status orrecognition by world states though sections of the Eelam were under de facto control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for most of the2000s. The name is derived from the ancient Tamil name for Sri Lanka‚ Eelam. TAMIL PERIOD The Jaffna kingdom (1215-1624 CE)‚ also known as Kingdom of Aryacakravarti‚ of modern northern Sri Lanka was a historic
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The Sri-Lankan Construction Industry in the New Millennium C WEDDIKKARA Dept. of Management‚ Construction and Building Science University of Western Sydney‚ Australia d.weddikkara@uws.edu.au K. DEVAPRIYA Dept. of Building Economics University of Moratuwa‚ Sri Lanka (Research Scholar‚ University of Hong Kong) Abstract The construction investment in Sri- Lanka has followed the economic changes that took place during the last decade. This resulted in a significant change particularly in the supply
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who interact with each other in the course of their working day. This report was commissioned to analyze the structure and the culture of the two airlines and the comparison and contrasting the structure of the two organizations‚ Sri Lankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka Airline. Next how the structure helps the culture of each organization is being clearly discussed in this report. And the different factors that will affect the individual behavior of the employee at work. Secondly the leadership
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show the darkness of political war but it shows the trauma and psychological side of it that can tear people apart. Anil’s Ghost reflects on the dark and unsettling idea that no matter what you fix and change‚ the political war in the history of Sri Lanka was this dark time period that changed them forever. Sen supports Anil’s Ghost in his writing Identity and Violence that political war can only succeed based on the support of the people. “ Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and
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University of Colombo‚ Colombo 3‚ Sri Lanka) Background paper for the 5th South Asian Economics Students Meet‚ 28th January to 3rd February 2008‚ New Delhi‚ India Accelerating Rural Growth and Empowering the Rural Poor The efficiency of the Samurdhi program in accelerating rural growth in Sri Lanka Shazana Ismail Department of Economics‚ University of Colombo‚ Sri Lanka Abstract Poverty reduction has been always a strategic consideration for all Sri Lankan governments since independence
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From the early-1980s to the 1990s‚ Sri Lanka was in a Civil War involving three essential groups: the government‚ the anti-government insurgents in the south and the separatists in the north. The civil war lasted 25 years killing 80 000 – 100000 people which caused economic‚ political and environmental distress for Sri Lanka. While the Tamil Tigers (the insurgents) were considered terrorists in 32 countries across the globe‚ the Sri-Lankan government forces were also accused of abusing human rights
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