tamilians are a 10% minority Mahinda has the support of 15 million Sinhalese , most of the muslims and a share of Tamils..LTTE sympathies can keep dreaming...
Also I agree that development first and then think about being 100% democratic ! food is more important than democracy ~
No we don`t want to be over populated..Men here wear Condoms,they do something called family planing so that they don`t breed like rabbits.
Most livable cities around the world doesnt even have a 2 m population
Colombo is not just a town its a city..Colombo district is the home for 3 million.A place doesn`t have to be over populated with 20-30 million and polluted to be called a CITY
China is waay more devoloped , a world super power and never backed LTTE so there is no reason for us to take sides with India.India should get their prioritiies right and realise what they actually are.first focus should be on their 400 million slum dwellers that die in hunger and living like...
yes but the advantage for you guys is the massive work force. And I guess the median age is quite young as well.Lanka has an aging population because our Population growth is almost 0% !
India doesn`t have the highest HDI in subcontinent..Sri Lanka is the only country that is in `high` HDI category and is ahead of India in almost evety socio-economic indicator .India is on medium.
10,000 wont be easy but it will be over $8000 for Sri Lanka hopefully.By the end of 2015 our GDP per capita will be around $4500.Government expect it to be around 6000 by 2017...We doubled our GDP per capita within 6 years during 2006-2012 and 8000+ is achievable if the ongoing infrastructure...
really glad to hear this..I m sure Bangladesh will surpass $3000 barrier quicker than india and pakistan
Hopefully by 2020 ,
Sri Lanka`s GDP per capita will be around $8000-10,000
Bangladesh - $3000
Pakistan - 2500-$3000
India - $3000
Colombo district is 247 sqm you can easily see that in a map ! Islamabad`s living standards`s are no where near that of Colombo or any Sri Lankan city.Pakistan is way behind in every socio-economic indicator (i can write a list if you want) as well as the cleanliness.
poverty rate of 10% in...
Colombo district is 247 square miles and you see this cleanliness through out the district..or throughout the countrty.
Population is 0.7 m not far behind Islamabad`s 1.1m..population of the district is 2.5 million.Colombo`s economy is several times the size of Islabad`s economy and GDP per...
I think Sri Lankan cities are very clean even by South East Asian standards..Colombo will look even better once krish (90 floors - 3 towers ), altair (65 floors) , lotus tower , crown and Shangri la 7 star hotel projects completed