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Your data is outdated. Sri Lanka is the only country near island-wide electrification. Sri Lanka has 98+% electrification. https://www.oxfordbusinessgroup.com/news/nearing-island-wide-electrification-sri-lanka-focus-quality-and-reliability

It's good that they found someone to use the land, bad that they ruined a good investment.

I think the biggest advantage of these will be to secure the shipping lanes against Piracy from East Africa. The added security will encourage shipping operators to transit through our ports and bring in revenue.

The tallest building I believe.

It's a shame, hopefully there will be more impact of the RTI bill next year; if the public engages with the mechanism, then it will suddenly become much more difficult to graft funds or use political capital for personal gain because paper trails will lead to loss of office. The RTI bill is...

@Godman @Gibbs and @supun1 Thanks for the excelllent work curating this thread, it's high time that Sri Lanka gets its own development thread here. Cheers!

Sri Lanka is and has always been the best place in the subcontinent (and for a while, all of mainland Asia) to have and raise children. The problem comes when these children finish their mandatory primary school and high school and free university. There needs to be high-paying jobs at the...

To achieve synergistic progress as a multinational organisation you must have compatible goals, the SAARC nations don't even have this in common. The ASEAN nations are more culturally and strategically compatible with one another. Sri Lanka probably would have (due to Buddhist cultural heritage)...

Sorry I think I created a repost of this in the South Asia forums! Even though this seems too good to be true, China has excess industrial capacity that isn't being used at home. For example they have the capacity to produce 30% more steel than they can export or use internally without...

China just requested 15,000 acres of land in southern Sri Lanka for the creation of a special economic zone that will reputedly create one million jobs, according to the country’s Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade...

Not one case of transmission in 3.5 years. The experience we get can be adapted to fight dengue I think.

The 2015 HDR has in the statistical annex data on average annual HDI change per decade. It's quite interesting, looks like the war had very little effect on overall human development.

| Human Development Reports Sri Lanka has been placed 73rd, outranking Georgia, Brazil, China, Ukraine and Mexico and is one place below Turkey. For reference: India: 130th Pakistan: 147th Thailand: 93rd China: 90th Bhutan: 132nd Nepal: 145th Brazil: 75th Australia: 2nd Japan: 20th Korea: 17th...

This is definitely a cultural thing

Australia most definitely voted against Gillard for Abbott the last election. It is not how the system works, but it is how people work, psychologically.

The same thing happens everywhere. @Gibbs can probably tell you about how Tony Abbott was elected in Australia, pretty much exactly the same thing. It wasn't a vote FOR someone. It was a vote AGAINST someone else.

Anyone can make predictions; but predictions are not prophecies. They're basically educated guesses based on trends and historical data. The Economist Intelligence Unit is generally well-reputed so it's always worth listening to what they have to say.

3000% would be thirty times for India, as compared to ten times (1000%) for China. But remember that India is growing from a lower base so higher growth rates are expected. Actually, The IMF predictions for Sri Lanka have been correct to within 5% error for the last 10 years in a row. And they...

Source: http://pages.eiu.com/rs/783-XMC-194/images/Long-termMacroeconomicForecasts_KeyTrends.pdf Key points: China, India and the US in 2050 individually will be larger in GDP than the next 5 countries combined. The Chinese economy will be ten times its current size. Per capita GDP in...

From his speech he seems like he will carry out his duties with honour, we shall see what becomes of this appointment soon.