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The Role of Education as a Source of Human Capital on Rural Poverty: A Review of Literature
(2014)Rural area is a geographic area located outside cities and towns. In order to have long term sustainability in rural sector, education as a source of human capital formation plays a major role by empowering the rural people ... -
Empowering People through Education from the Perspective of Millennium Development Goals
(2014)Education plays a significant role in people's empowerment which ultimately leads to sustainable development in any country. Therefore, this crucial position held by the education has become a universal acceptance. Further, ... -
Socio - Economic Implications on Southern Highway Project Special Reference to Evicted People
(2014)In developing countries, development related population displacement has grown rapidly over the past few decades due to the compelling need for infrastructure as a result of fast growing population densities. Those displaced ... -
IB Adoption in Sri Lanka: Analysis of Demographic Variables of Banking Customers
(2014)Contemporary concepts of information and communication technology and implementation strategies to banking services have become a significant matter to all banks in Sri Lanka. The advancement in technology has played an ... -
Investigation on Functions and Product Structure of Islamic Banking vs. Conventional Banking in Sri Lanka: a Case Study
(2014)Islamic banks (IBs) were originated to satisfy the financial needs of Muslim community by rejecting interest and following Profit-Loss sharing paradigm while conforming to Shariah principles. IB is increasingly gaining ... -
Online Shopping Behaviour of Young Adults in Higher Education Sector: How Brand Matters
(2014)The purpose of this study is to find out the online shopping behaviour of Sri Lankan young adults with special emphasis on brand loyalty. Building and maintaining brand loyalty is a vital part of establishing sustainable ... -
Determinants of the Factors Affecting the Customer Satisfaction in Super Market Industry in Sri Lanka
(2014)customer satisfaction and service quality are crucial factors when defining organizational success. The winning approach in brining success is to serve the best quality to the customers. The current situation requires ... -
Perception on Credit Cards for E-Payments in E-Government Service in Sri Lanka
(2014)n competitive and complicated context, people look for quick, short and quality services. Government as well needs to provide competitive services by integrating new technologies. In an e-government, a solid and trusted ... -
Risk Analysis of Governance in Community Development Projects
(2014)Governance in a community development project could be referred as a process of decision making in order to achieve expectations, and management goals. The good governance ensures transparency in decision making and ... -
Box-Jenkins Approach for Out-of-Sample Forecasting of Stock Price Index: Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange
(2014)Univariate time series analysis under the time domain has become a widely used data analysis technique from the past. The methods belong to time series could be used to identify the temporal structure of data and forecasting. ... -
Environmental Disclosure Practices of Manufacturing Industry -Evidence from Listed Companies in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka
(2014)This study examines the level of Environmental Disclosures by the companies listed in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) in Sri Lanka and their association with some specific attributes of the companies. For this purposes, a ... -
A Review on Geometric Brownian Motion for Forecasting the Daily Share Prices in CSE
(2014)Capital Investments in stock market is the easiest and fastest way for building healthy financial foundation for our future life. As a result, stock markets have become more institutionalized in the past few decades and ... -
Impact of Granting Micro Finance Facilities on the Living Standards of the Rural Poor in Sri Lanka
(2014)This paper establishes facts to evaluate the impact of microfinance credit schemes in operation, on the actual living standards of beneficiaries of such schemes. In Sri Lanka, micro finance credit facilities are being ... -
Importance of Ethical Leadership in Public and Private Enterprises of Sri Lanka in Developing and Global Contexts
(2014)This conference paper will attempt to address key aspects of a resurgent and a contemporary business issue - importance of ethical leadership in private and public enterprises of Sri Lanka in developing and global contexts. ... -
The Study on Factors Affecting the Decline of Freight Movement: The Case of Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)
(2014)The freight movement by the Sri Lanka Railways has had a dramatic decline over the last three decades. The freight market share of the Sri Lanka Railways(SLR) has come down to 0.7% in the recent past, which was 32% in 1979 ... -
Determinants of Air Passenger Demand in Sri Lanka: A Case Study based on Bandaranayake International Airport
(2014)Air transportation plays a significant role in nations' economy providing expeditious links to the international markets. Globalization and advanced technological applications have squeezed the entire world, where by ... -
Trucking Industry Perceptions of Congestion Problems and Potential Solutions to Container Transportation in Sri Lanka
(2014)Inland Container transportation is coordinated and interacted between port terminals, Container Freight Stations, exporters, consignees, clearing agents, freight forwarders and primarily container transport companies. The ... -
Fashion Syntax: Concept of Contextual Dependence
(2014)Fashion is a mode of language where man's has the ability to transcend his expression. Like language in this sense, dress functions as a kind if syntax, according to a set of more or less constant rules depending on whether ... -
Animal Figures found from Mosaic designs at Karagampitiya Subodharamaya
(2014)The main objective of this research paper is to explicate about animal figures found in Sri Lankan mosaic designs with special reference to mosaics at Karagampitiya Subodharamaya. The methodology of this research paper ... -
Impact of Music on Education of Primary Students in Colombo District
(2014)Education is the process of transferring skills, knowledge and habits of people from one generation to the next. Education is obtained through the methods of learning and teaching, and by life experiences. As Oxford ...
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