Monthly Archives: August 2013

Letters to a Sri Lankan Cabinet Minister on management The responeses to these letters are omitted for confidendiality 12 December 2011 Hon. D.E.W. Gunasekera, MP Minister of Human Resources 128 Beddagana Road Pita Kotte, SRI LANKA. COPE Report:  Under-Performing Public … Continue reading →

Quantitative Easing: What is this? Quantitative Easing (QE) came into economic lexicon after the Year 2000. Text books on economics still avoid the subject. The Oxford dictionary defines it as follows: “A form of monetary policy that is sometimes used … Continue reading →

Who killed  the Bangladeshi garment workers? The news media in the West have been giving a lot of attention to the  collapse of a building housing a garment factory in Bangladesh which killed over 400  workers, mostly young girls, on … Continue reading →

Letter to a US Congressman Due to the deepening economic crisis in the USA and a dysfunctional US Congress that is unable to pass even the annual budget, the author sent this letter to the local Congress member. The US … Continue reading →

BRICS Summit Meeting of March 2013 The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit meeting of March 2013 held in Durban, South Africa, which had an ambitious agenda which will have consequences for the world economy, has been all … Continue reading →

Billionaires Rule the World The  prestigious Bloomberg News, which provides a barometer for reading the international business world, has announced that this world of seven billion  people has 1,426 billionaires who owned US$5.4 trillion in 2012, an increase in  wealth … Continue reading →

The Story of Qiu Ju Film Review Most cinema goers who patronise the neighbourhood cinema hall are usually treated to blockbusters with plenty of sex and violence with strong nationalistic overtones where our good guys overcome foreign bad guys. So … Continue reading →