Chronic Kidney Disease with uncertain etiology (CKDu) has been a hazard in the North Central Province and surrounding areas since the late 1990s and early 2000s. Scientists from diverse disciplines have been attempting ...

The discourse of development has been humanised in its meaning by research in humanities and the social sciences, with the addition of equity and welfare and human well-being to its original exclusive focus on material ...

Increasing challenges to access potable water have created numerous problems in highly-populated societies. Societies returning to normalcy after the war face unique challenges in this regard. This study explores the ...

The modern day person is involved in vicarious consumption patterns in order to showcase wealth, enhance prestige, and attract others’ attention through conspicuousness, exclusiveness, and emulation. We live in a society ...

In developing countries, community-based integrated rural development programmes have been used as a special strategy to enhance the economic and social standards of rural people over the past few decades. Saemaul Undong ...

This paper takes an unorthodox approach to examine conventional environmental legislation and explore how Buddhist ethics on environmental conservation could be incorporated to solve contemporary development issues. ...

Sri Lankan Muslim leaders and social movements have constantly negotiated their connection to the global Muslim Umma with their place as a minority within the Sri Lankan polity. While Sri Lankan Muslim leaders have always ...

Exchange rate volatility affects export competitiveness and, thereby, has an impact on export growth. Economies that embark on export-led economic growth endeavour to maintain a competitive exchange rate policy as an ...

Urban development is emerging as a key priority in Sri Lanka. However, the social costs of development are often ignored in the construction of highways, flyovers, condominiums, and other large scale development projects. ...

The Arab Spring is a series of anti-government protests spread across the Middle East and the North African (MENA) region since 2011. It is a widespread concept that Arab Spring is a ‘failed revolution. This study ...