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		<title>Increasing Prices and Increasing Govt Spending: Easing the economic burden of the poor and middle class</title>
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	“Inflation is the one form of taxation which even the weakest government can enforce, when it can enforce nothing else.”  League of Nations Report on European Inflations of the 1920s.
	The Continuing Increase in the Cost of Living
It is unlikely to come as a surprise to anyone that consumer prices continued to increase rapidly last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/10/increasing-prices-and-increasing-govt-spending-easing-the-economic-burden-of-the-poor-and-middle-class/</link>
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		<title>The Mahoshada Perspective: Looking back and ahead at the century mark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This article marks a milestone of sorts; it is the 100th article by this author published in the Sunday Island since June 2004.  As such, it represents an opportunity to step back for a moment and attempt to provide a broader perspective on the reasons for exploring a wide range of issues having to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/10/the-mahoshada-perspective-looking-back-and-ahead-at-the-century-mark/</link>
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		<title>The Costs of Doing Business in Sri Lanka: Standing Still is not a Viable Option</title>
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	“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.”  Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
	Conditions for conducting business in Sri Lanka have deteriorated markedly during the last year; this according to the World Bank’s annual publication Doing Business 2007, which provides a comprehensive international comparison [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/10/the-costs-of-doing-business-in-sri-lanka-standing-still-is-not-a-viable-option/</link>
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		<title>Peace and Poverty: Restoring a shared stake in economic progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Sri Lanka faces two great national challenges today, both daunting and their solutions seemingly unrelated – finding a lasting peace and eliminating poverty.  Leaders and their spokesmen on both sides speak about the resumption of war as though its resolution is entirely a military and political matter.  And now that elections and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/09/peace-and-poverty-restoring-a-shared-stake-in-economic-progress/</link>
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		<title>War and Investment: Economic Consequences of a Return to War</title>
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	“We’ve put everything on hold”, said an executive from one multinational country.  “What can you do with this much uncertainty?  Better to sit it out for now.”  
	The above quote was included in an article published by Reuters, titled “Sri Lankan Fighting Puts Investment on Ice” that appeared in newspapers and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/08/war-and-investment-economic-consequences-of-a-return-to-war/</link>
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		<title>No Competitiveness without Competition: Fuel pricing continues to hurt consumers</title>
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The apparent continuing problems with the market position of the Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) reveals a fundamental flaw in the government’s approach to pricing fuel and in creating a competitive and efficient economic environment.  And as is usually the case, it is consumers that must bear the burden of these economically unsound policies. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/08/no-competitiveness-without-competition-fuel-pricing-continues-to-hurt-consumers/</link>
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		<title>Sharply Falling Business Confidence in the Economy: Mixed signals from government and the private sector?</title>
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One of the fundamental reasons why the free market system has prevailed over government controlled systems almost everywhere in the world is that it is generally able to continue functioning adequately despite most attempts by governments to meddle.  A free market economy is driven by the actions of millions of consumers and (mostly) private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/08/sharply-falling-business-confidence-in-the-economy-mixed-signals-from-government-and-the-private-sector/</link>
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		<title>The End of the WTO’s Doha Development Round: The Negative Implications for Sri Lanka</title>
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	“Indian farmers can compete with US farmers but not with the US Treasury.”  Kamal Nath, Indian Trade Minister.
	The Suspension of the WTO Doha Round Talks
This week the global trade negotiations that have been taking place through the World Trade Organization’s Doha Development Round (DDR) were formally indefinitely suspended.  Many believe that this constitutes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/08/the-end-of-the-wto%e2%80%99s-doha-development-round-the-negative-implications-for-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<title>Twisted Economic Logic: More Signs of a Deteriorating Economic Environment</title>
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	“Government&#8217;s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.”  Ronald Reagan
	The Port Strike
The negative consequences of the government’s approach to managing the economy are becoming increasingly apparent.  As this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/08/twisted-economic-logic-more-signs-of-a-deteriorating-economic-environment/</link>
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		<title>‘Panacea for a Misguided Nation’: Inflation, Inequality &#038; Social Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	“The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war.  Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin.  But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.”  Ernest Hemingway in Notes on the Next War. 
	At a time when a new Governor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mahoshada.com/2006/07/%e2%80%98panacea-for-a-misguided-nation%e2%80%99-inflation-inequality-social-conflict/</link>
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