Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) can be observed as a leading cause of mortality in Sri Lanka. Smoking, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, and unhealthy diets increase the risk of dying from NCDs according to ...

International production networks have become an increasingly important part of international production and trade in recent times, especially in East Asia. An international production network refers to inter- and ...

This study investigates the determinants of Carbon-dioxide emissions (CO2) for 140 countries, using a dynamic cross-sectional annual data model for the period 2002 to 2013 inclusive. The main findings are that trade ...

The relationship between foreign aid and economic development has been investigated extensively with the use of cross-country macro data, but the findings have remained inconclusive. The literature points to a number of ...

This paper calculates the Expectation of Life without Disability for Sri Lanka. No one has ever attempted to calculate health expectancies up to now for Sri Lanka, and, hence, this paper will be the first of its kind and ...

The nature of the European colonial encounter, the ways in which indigenous people responded to the colonial presence, and the specific nature of the polity that emerged out of the colonial domination are still debated ...

Supervernaculars emerge as semiotic codes which form a sociolinguistic system as a result of the processes of globalization in a technologically-driven world. This very creation of supervernaculars challenges the traditional ...

DPSIR is an abbreviation for Driving forces, Pressures, State, Impact, and Responses. The framework is appropriate for describing the relationship between the origins and consequences of environmental problems, their ...

Sri Lanka has shown a trend of male dominance in international labour migration in recent years. A large proportion of these males are married and leave their wives behind when they migrate for a contract period. Migration ...

Humour is considered as involving the communication of multiple incongruous meanings that in some manner evoke amusement. Regarding pedagogy, research has identified significant differences in humour use depending on ...