Good News From Jayam December 1, 2022 Pls Scroll Down 25 items Hope You Had A Great Thanksgiving! Advocata Institute wins 2022 Templeton Freedom Award – Dhananath Fernando Advocata Institute, an independent policy think-tank based in Colombo, has won the 2022 Templeton Freedom Award by Atlas Network. Advocata’s chief executive officer Dhananath Fernando accepted the award and a 100,000 US dollar grand prize at the Atlas Network Freedom Dinner held in New York last week. Since 2004, the award has identified and recognised the most exceptional and innovative contributions to the understanding of free enterprise, and the public policies that encourage prosperity, innovation, and human fulfillment via free competition. Visit Sri Lanka – The Irresistible Tourist Hotspot in the Middle of the Indian Ocean Addressing the Wenzhou International Import Expo, Ambassador Dr. Palitha Kohona, extolled the high quality of Sri Lanka’s agricultural exports. Black tea which is, by far, the ...
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Common Minimum Programme for Economic Recovery Compiled by the National Movement for Social Justice People waiting for their turn to purchase a gas cylinder Source:Dailymirror We are in the throes of an unprecedented crisis. No useful comparisons may be drawn from the 2001- 02 period of negative economic growth. The only analogue may be from 90 years ago, when per capita GDP collapsed from USD 80 to 33 in a few years as part of the Sri Lankan manifestation of the Great Depression. Sri Lanka has the highest income inequality in South Asia (between China and the US in international comparisons) and provided little compensation for the harms caused by the pandemic and lockdowns. Our citizens in the lower deciles are unable to withstand more shocks. It will not be possible to get out of this crisis without any pain. But the pain can be minimized, especially for the most ...
Advocata’s Aneetha wins Commonwealth Scholarship, secures a place at Cambridge Uni. Aneetha Warusavitarana, Research Manager at Colombo-based independent policy think-tank Advocata Institute, has secured a place at the University of Cambridge for an MPhil in Public Policy. She was also one of the few Sri Lankans (this year) to secure the prestigious Commonwealth Shared Scholarship. Aneetha played an important role in driving numerous research projects aimed at promoting sound public policy ideas for a freer and more prosperous Sri Lanka at the Advocata Institute. Her work in Sri Lanka’s public policy space consists of driving advocacy campaigns and research on micro, small and medium enterprise reform, period poverty, trade liberalisation and State-owned enterprise reform in Sri Lanka to name a few. Aneetha is a product of Ladies’ College Colombo and the University of London International Programs, where she graduated with a first-class in International Development. Advocata Institute Chief Operating Officer ...
