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COVID-19
No takers for COVID-19 booster vials in Sri Lanka
There is a rise in COVID-19 hospitalisations in Sri Lanka. Yet, people are reluctant to take the vaccine booster.
Over 5000 cases of COVID-19 were...
Accountability
Modi’s PMCARES and Gotabaya’s COVID–19 fund: Two similar kitties?
Beginning with a lack of accountability, there are a number of interesting similarities between the Sri Lankan president's COVID–19 Healthcare and Social Security Fund...
COVID-19
COVID-19, food shortage and inflation could bankrupt Sri Lanka
Food shortage and inflation are causing distress and the government has barely any foreign exchange reserves to import food – especially as agricultural productivity...
Livelihood
Sri Lankan fishermen restless
Inflation has added to the woes of fishing communities, already anguished by a series of environmental and business developments.
Rising fuel prices have Sri Lanka’s...
Human rights
New union-employer agreement in Sri Lanka addresses key worker rights
In a historic victory for the workers and their unions, the MoU establishes a bipartite dispute resolution mechanism by the unions and the forum...
Bangladesh
Lebanon crises increases suffering of migrant domestic workers
Around 250,000 women migrant domestic workers in Lebanon from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia and the Philippines earn as low as US$ 150 a month...
Features
Anyone there to pull Lankans out of inflation and poor fiscal management?
Tourism and the businesses of tea and spices have, together with exports of ready-made garments, been the mainstay of Sri Lanka's economy. But the...
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Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole measure of corporate climate ambition, according to a new perspective...
Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat wave in recorded history this April with forecasts showing no...
Two Challenges Before Microfinance
The rate of interest charged by microfinance institutions is high enough not to allow microfinance to bring about any...
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Voluntary Corporate Emissions Targets Not Enough to Create Real Climate Action
Companies’ emissions reduction targets should not be the sole...
Bangladesh witnesses longest heat wave in 76 years
Meteorologists said that Bangladesh is experiencing its longest heat...
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