The spread of Covid-19 in Qatar and the pandemic-led economic slump in the country have substantial financial implications for Sri Lankan migrant workers in Qatar and the Sri Lankan economy as a whole, as Qatar has been ...

This paper investigates how internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, financed their first year of displacement. We conducted extensive fieldwork in August 2007 in numerous welfare centres in Batticaloa ...

The Economic Community of West African States has come up with a new single currency to be used for its proposed West African monetary union. It is called eco. Among the West African states are a group of countries ...

Since the boom in the economies of Gulf countries in the mid- 1970s, the region has gradually become an appealing destination for professional migrants. In the Gulf, professionals gain skills and knowledge which could be ...

Sri Lanka is seeking rapid economic growth targeting at doubling per capita income by 2016. Nonetheless, inequality is at its historical highest and thus the development challenge is to ensure that rapid economic growth ...

Sri Lanka’s achievement in social development front is remarkable in the developing world. However, by and large, this achievement did not help Sri Lanka achieve a rapid economic growth particularly during the pre-liberalization ...

Value Added Tax (VAT) has proved itself an effective form of taxation and its growth is unprecedented by any other concept in taxation in the world. As in most other developed and developing countries the push for fundamental ...