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LOL! Election is good for this reason, at least they might get something done!

Do you have a source? All sources (UN, IndexMundi, WorldBank, AsianDevelopmentBank) place nominal Sri Lankan GDP per capita above 3,000 nominally and around 6,000+ for PPP. Sri Lanka:Report for Selected Countries and Subjects India:Report for Selected Countries and Subjects If you want to...

PPP$6600-$6135= PPP$465 increase in 2013. It grew $465 in one year per capita PPP-wise. If you want to know if that's impressive, compare it to India. with predicted 4.7% growth its GDP per capita PPP will increase just $180.

I just hope that they keep lowering the budget deficit as well!

Unfortunately almost every country in the world practices the law of Eminent Domain =\ It is necessary or one person refusing compensation can stop a development project that will help many more, but I agree that it is different when it happens to you personally.

But this will just create a never-ending cycle, no? On-topic: This means that GDP per capita is PPP$6600 country-wide for 2013!

These things are in the past. We should concentrate on making tomorrow better.

LOL! If only everyone did this, the world might be a better place. Imagine a world where the US didn't play world police! Thanks! I hear India is recovering well from the financial crisis, is this true?

I thought the news was more interesting because the growth comes with a decrease in budget deficit, which means that it is sustainable growth. At least for right now! Thanks all for the positivity.

Oct 15, Colombo: The Monetary Board of Sri Lanka's Central Bank has decided to further relax monetary policies amid low inflation and reduce policy interest rates aiming to boost economic growth, the Central Bank said in its monetary policy Tuesday. The Monetary Board of the Bank has decided to...

Yes, this victim blaming needs to end.

Actually no, if you follow the link, someone has incorrectly cited on wikipedia. It is the Western Province's latest figure not Metro Colombo. Yeah! That's what I'm talking about! We can save this thread :D

This thread is hilarious. Some Indian poster saw Sri Lanka, China, and BD's progress and started getting mad :D It's funny because he can't beat us in real world facts for living standards so he started spewing the time he beat us in his religious myths LOL. Also a whole bunch of racist...

Actually that's not for the Colombo Metro area, that is for the Western Province in which Colombo is. You can check this by opening the PDF that the wiki citation links to. The Western Province has around 6 million people. My data is from the National HDR release. Meanwhile Goa's per capita...

I agree completely. He derailed the thread, probably out of jealousy. Dude needs to learn to control his emotions like a civilised person instead of chimping out on the forum. I mean we just have to look at the quality of his posts vs. the people responding. Ad hominem insults, very classy and...

Also interesting: Colombo's GDP PPP per capita is 2-3 times Goa's. (4000-5000 vs 12,000). Although Sri Lanka may have a higher per capita GDP for a long time, BD's fast growth means it will probably have a greater impact on the region because of the higher population!

Population does not matter when comparing per capita statistics. Per capita means for each person individually, regardless of how many there are. You understand this right? Obviously all countries vary with diversity and geography. If that stopped comparison you can never compare any country...

This is because the currency was artificially pegged to decrease the cost of import. The government got rid of this recently, and will try to float the SL Rupee. But the value of the currency is not important, as even the yen of Japan is around the same value. This is an error many Indians...

If you're really interested you may want to read this: http://www.treasury.gov.lk/publications/mahindaChintanaVision-2010full-eng.pdf (English Version) - It is easier to right-click it and click download, it's quite large. It basically outlines everything GoSL is trying to do between now and...

Good job BD! South Asia will be more exciting by 2018 Edit: Oh wow! The results are really quite different if we take a look at PPP! Sri Lanka at PPP$10,000 before 2020? Only 5 years behind China seems a little odd. Maybe we'll just have to wait and see. Bhutan is the true champion though...