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In pursuit of 1 Sri Lanka: Lessons from a Malaysian counterpart
No full textThe quest for national unity has become a leadership challenge for successive leaders of both Malaysia and Sri Lanka. While the two countries record significant differences in contexts and background, the similarities are equally striking. The following is an article that is based on a two-country study undertaken by the author to unpackage and explore the "1Malaysia" Programme that was launched in 2009 following the election of Malaysian Prime Minister's, Tun Najib Razak into his first term in office. The author spent a two week resident attachment at the 1Malayisa Foundation in Malaysia in the summer of 2012 to study further the facets of the governance programme that had been formulated with the intention of resolving the ethnic tensions that have plagued Malaysia since it gained independence, or Merdeka. The purpose of the endeavour was three-fold: First, to identify and extract aspects of the 1Malaysia Programme as relevant to the Sri Lankan context so as to formulate a potential 1Sri Lanka programme that is cognizant of the variables at stake. Secondly, the article seeks to critique the already existent framework of the 1Malaysia Programme by providing recommendations for improvement where necessary. Third, to begin dialogue and deliberations on the rich learning and exchange that can be cultivated between the two countries by providing a framework for bilateral cooperation between the Governments of Malaysia and Sri Lanka
Promoting growth in Sri Lanka : lessons from East Asia
No full textSri Lanka's weak economic performance, although compounded by the civil war and budgetary imbalance, largely reflects the following: 1) a stop-and-go pattern of policy reform, because of political constraints - even though the results of reform were generally positive; 2) weak economic management, resulting in high inflation and a high fiscal and balance of payments deficit; 3) poor management of public spending; 4) mixed performance in exchange-rate management, with periods of substantial overvaluation; 5) financial policies that (despite recent improvements) hamper efficient financial intermediation; 6) prolonged trade protection, followed by selective trade liberalization; 7) continued distortion in agricultural policies; 8) inflexible labor markets and, despite Sri Lanka's outstanding track record on human development, problems with the quality of the labor force. To address a substantially unfinished policy agenda, Sri Lanka needs to intensify efforts to peacefully resolve civil conflict. There is also a need to squarely address its macroeconomic imbalances, involving a sharp reduction in the fiscal deficit, a cutback on public spending and redefinition of spending priorities, improvement of cost recovery for public services, and continuing to improve the management of the exchange rate. In trade policy, eliminate most quanitative restrictions, further reduce tariff protection, simplify the tariff structure, and, possibly, reform customs (to reduce leakage and abuse). Rationalize employment, exit, and bankruptcy regulations and procedures. The authors recommend improvement in communications between government and the private sector. It is necessary for the financial sector to become more competitive by legislating banking reform, giving state-owned banks more autonomy and putting private commercial banks on an equal footing with the two state banks, with the ultimate goal of privatizing the state banks, and also strengthen the supervision of banking. Also in the financial sector the authors have identified a need for privatization in insurance and pension funds to strengthen the capital market. Several aspects of the agricultural sector need to be revamped. Primarily, privatization of the estate plantations, perhaps through long-term management contracts and the gradual sale of share in assets; reduced trade protection; implementation of land reform; strengthen agricultural support; and possibly support rural financing institutions. Lastly, the authors suggest an end to government controls on hiring, firing, and wage setting as well as rationalization in civil service employment decisions.Labor Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Decentralization,Banks&Banking Reform,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Achieving Shared Growth,Inequality
ANALISIS SENTIMEN MASYARAKAT PADA KEBIJAKAN VAKSINASI COVID-19 DI TWITTER MENGGUNAKAN METODE MESIN VEKTOR PENDUKUNG DENGAN KERNEL RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION BERBASIS FITUR LEKSIKON
No full textTwitter is one of the popular social media used to get news quickly and briefly. After the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the government's policy to vaccinate against COVID-19 in Indonesia, more and more public opinion has been expressed through tweets. This makes the topic of COVID-19 vaccination interesting for sentiment analysis. Through sentiment analysis, information in the form of text data can be extracted to classify information related to positive or negative opinions. In this study, the classification of public opinion on COVID-19 vaccination was carried out using the supporting vector machine method without and with lexicon-based features. The manual labeling data used were 2981 tweets. The results of the classification of public opinion on COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia with a supporting vector machine without the lexicon feature obtained accuracy, g-mean and AUC of 83%, 50% and 61.35%, respectively. Meanwhile, with lexicon-based features, the performance of the supporting vector machine method for classifying public opinion on COVID-19 vaccination in Indonesia obtained accuracy, g-mean and AUC of 90%, 86.63% and 87%, respectively. Based on these results, the performance of the supporting vector machine method with lexicon-based features provides better results for the performance of classifying of public opinion on COVID-19 vaccination compared to supporting vector machines without lexicon-based features
Kajian budaya naskah kuna cariyos dewi sri
No full textPenelitian ini ingin mengkaji mitos padi yang tarkandung dalam
Serat Cariyos Dewi Sri dengan mengembil judul "Mitos Padi dalam Serat Cariyos Dewi Sri" Perlu dikemukakan bahwa cerita mengenai mitos asal mula adanya padi ini terdapat banyak versi yang terkandung dalam berbagai sumber. Salah satu di antaranya adalah yang terkandung dalam Serat Cariyos Dewi Sri yang dipilih dan diangkat sebagai sumber dalam penelitian ini
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