Our leaders past and present are responsible for Sri Lanka’s brain-drain-driven development deficiency. The 1956 Sinhala Only policy saw the English-educated citizens, ...

COLOMBO -- As Sri Lanka sank deep into its economic crisis last year, dentist Lakmal Kulasekara watched many in his field pack up and leave. ... Sri Lanka hit by record brain drain, ...

Sri Lanka faces brain drain, a year after uprising. The bankrupt Indian Ocean country has reached a bailout agreement with the IMF, tied to drastic reforms that are already strangling the middle ...

As the curtains fall on an eventful year for the Sri Lanka Association for Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM), ...

Sri Lanka has long provided free medical education. To address the disparities in education prevailing between different ...

Sri Lanka risks a brain drain with tax hikes by Arundathie Abeysinghe President and Finance Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has proposed taxing incomes starting at 100,000 rupees (US$ 270) a month.

The Sri Lankan government also lacks transparency. Colombo (AsiaNews) – New personal taxes are causing a brain drain in Sri Lanka, especially among information technology (IT) workers.

Sri Lanka has long been a place that breeds successful migrants, a country where people value education and gladly seek new opportunities to learn, ... The talk of a brain drain is now a reality.

According to the Digiecon-2030, Sri Lanka’s ICT workforce should be at least 175,000 this year and 300,000 by 2025. “But we only have 75,000 at the moment. We are on the path of achieving the targets ...

Sri Lanka has seen a significant brain drain with over 300,000 people leaving Sri Lanka for foreign employment in 2024 alone. The country faces an ever-shrinking talent pool — talent which is ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Shamla Yoosoof, an investment researcher from Colombo, left Sri Lanka with her 3-year-old son and a jam-packed suitcase, swapping economic chaos at home for a new start in ...

Brain drain – emigration of Sri Lanka’s highly trained or intelligent people to foreign countries has become a major problem today. ... By 2000, Sri Lanka had become the 6th largest source country of ...