The top 3 critiques of GDP were by Simon Kuznets, father of GDP himself: 1. Home production (hits welfare, not GDP) 2. Military (hits GDP, not welfare) 3. Enviro quality People google Kuznets & then recycle his own caution about big shocks to those 3 variables as novel content

Is Prophet Jerome actually Profit Jerome? Read our Examination for the facts examiner.media/prophet-jerome…

We need to add the Colombo cluster.

And Colombo?

Issue #5: almost a demographics special issue🧓. Links 👇

When births dropped during the pandemic, Lakshman Dissanayake, a demography professor, wasn’t worried. Couples have fewer babies during times of crisis. But the upsurge in fertility he expected afterwards never came. examiner.media/baby-boom-no-m…

People don’t make a decision about their final years until the “very end”, when they can’t manage . Then, their children - often abroad - decide for them. Examination asks what elders want. And whether their wishes can keep pace with society’s changes. examiner.media/after-the-chil…

It's high time we have strict guidelines for prioritising local roads for overlaying (carpeting) if there are no provisions for drainage improvements (& if that is necessary) please don't waste money by carpeting the road. The engineer approving this should be made accountable..

The Examiner's guide to elder care and elders homes in Colombo examiner.media/the-examiners-…

The best way to spend Rs.3600 ($12) is to get an annual subscription to The Examiner - in its weekly email it has an amazing Diary with a rundown of events taking place in SL (mainly in Colombo). There are so many things happening which I would otherwise 100% miss. Don't miss out!

Chart: over 1470 skeletons have been found at mass graves across the island.

Podcast I did with McKinsey & Company sometime ago is out: Sanjiva Weerawarana on building products in international markets mckinsey.com/industries/tec…

Issue #7, on government implementation failures, out now🏗️

[…] “The issue arose from the migration of the old system to the new system,” Sanjaya Karunasena, ICTA’s Executive Director, explained on Wednesday. The old system was managed by several private service providers. The new system is a managed cloud the government contracted to

Getting an article past mimi alphonsus and Pamodi Waravita at The Examiner is harder than clearing a speech at the foreign ministry or policy at the Treasury! Read the article here: examiner.media/the-government…

"The Examiner learns that the contracts of the old service providers weren’t extended for months before the failure. As a result, they were not retained during the major cloud migration." examiner.media/government-clo…

Weaving, an art tour by maestro Shanaathanan, dance-dance revolution and halloween craft for the kids. All this weekend in our Diary. Link 🔽

I feel Lanka Government Cloud crashing a bunch of e-government sites should garner serious, loud questions for the ICTA and GoSL at large, given how administrative incompetencies are at the cost of the average Sri Lankan. But here we are once again. readme.lk/lanka-governme…

The coming budget is Anura Kumara Dissanayake's first real budget. The greatest challenge he faces is implementation. Civil servants are now scared of taking decisions. “Everyone is now afraid of signing anything,” says a former treasury official. examiner.media/the-government…

Officials being afraid to make decisions is reminiscent of the Yahapalanaya days. Every decision was bumped up to a cabinet paper so there were weeks where 90 cabinet papers were discussed in a 60 minute meeting.