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Item 1977 වර්ෂයෙන් පසු ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සහ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය පිළිබඳ විශ්ලේෂණයක්(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Kumari, K.D.M.N.ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් තුළින් අවධානය යොමු කෙරෙන්නේ රටක ආර්ථික ක්‍රියාවලියේ දිශානතිය, අරමුණු සහ ක්‍රියාවලිය පෙන්නුම් කරනු ලබන සුවිශේෂි ලේඛනයක් ලෙස ද හැඳින්විය හැකි ය. විශේෂයෙන් ආර්ථිකමය, ගෝලීය සංවර්ධන බලපෑම්, සම්පත් හිඟකම, ප්‍රාග්ධනය, තාක්ෂණය, වෙළදපොළ ප්‍රසාරණය වීම වැනි ප්‍රශ්න විසදාලීමේ සාර්ව ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් පිළිබඳව දශක ගණනාවක් පුරාවට ම අවධානය යොමු කරන ලදී. ඒ අනුව 1948 වර්ෂයේ සිට 2014 දක්වා ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ලද ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තින් තුළ ම මෙරට සංවර්ධන ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සුවිශේෂි මඟකට යොමු කිරීමට හේතු පාදක විය. එම ප්‍රතිපත්ති තුළ 1977 විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය නැත්නම්, බාහිරාභිමුඛ ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය විදේශිය පෞද්ගලික අංශය දේශිය ආර්ථිකයට යොමු කරමින් ලෝක ආර්ථික ක්‍රමවේදය වෙත දිශානතිගත කිරීමක් සිදු කරන ලදී. එබැවින් මෙම පර්යේෂණයේ මුඛ්‍ය අභිමතාර්ථය බවට පත් වන්නේ 1977 වර්ෂයෙන් පසු විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය කෙරෙහි සිදු කරන ලද බලපෑම පිළ ිබඳ විශ්ලේෂණයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමයි. එහිදි අවධානය යොමු කරනු ලබන්නේ, 1977 සිට 88 දක්වා යුගය, 1989 සිට 1994 දක්වා යුගය, 1994- සිට 2004 දක්වා යුගය සහ 2004 සිට 2016 දක්වා ක්‍රියාත්මක වු මහින්ද චින්තන යුගයය ි. විශේෂයෙන් මෙම ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සඳහා පාදක වු හේතූන්, ක්‍රමෝපායන් සහ ආර්ථික දර්ශනය කෙරෙහි වඩාත් අවධානය යොමු කිරීම මෙහිදී අපේක්ෂා කෙරේ. මෙම පර්යේෂණයේ ගැටලුව බවට පත් වන්නේ අපේක්ෂිත සංවර්ධන ඉලක්ක සපුරා ගැනීමට මෙකී සංවර්ධන ප්‍රතිපත්තිය කෙතරම් දුරට සාධනීය මෙන් ම නිශේෂධනීය ආකාරයෙන් බලපෑමක් සිදු කර ඇත්තේ ද යන්න පිළිබඳ ව අධ්‍යයනය කිරීමයි. පර්යේෂණ ක්‍රමවේදය ලෙස විස්තරාත්මක සහ විශ්ලේෂණාත්මක ක්‍රමවේදයත්, අධ්‍යයනය සඳහා ද්විතියික දත්ත භාවිතයට ගෙන ඇත. පර්යෙ ්ෂණ නිගමනය බවට පත් වන්නේ මෙම විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය හරහා සංවර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතින රටවල ආර්ථිකමය වශයෙන් මුහුණ දෙන අභියෝග, ප්‍රශ්න විසඳාලීමත්, ඒ තුළින් ඉලක්ක ඉදිරියට මෙහෙයවා සංවර්ධනය ඉදිරියට වේගවත් කර ගැනීමේ අවස්ථාව මේ තුළින් නිර්මාණය වී ඇති බවයි. එබැවින් විවිධ මුහුණ ුවරකින් විවෘත ආර්ථික ප්‍රතිපත්තිය වඩාත් ඵලදායී ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ඇති යෝජනා වශයෙන්, ආර්ථික සංවර්ධනය තුළ පෞද්ගලික අංශයේ මැදිහත් වීම පුළුල් කිරිම, ජාතික මෙන් ම ජාත්‍යන්තර තාක්ෂණික සබඳතා පුළුල් කර ගැනීම, වෙළඳපොල ප්‍රසාරණ අවස්ථා පුළුල් කිරීම, රට තුළ භෞතික සම්පත් භාවිතයට ගැනීම මෙන් ම රට තුළ දේශපාලන ක්‍රමවේදයත්, රාජ්‍ය ප්‍රතිපත්තීන්හි ස්ථාවරත්වයත් ගොඩ නැංවීම, යනාදී කාරණා අත්‍යාවශ්‍ය වේ.Item 2016. The eligibility of pre – schools on early childhood development in Sri Lanka(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Madhushani, P.A.G.Item 2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සහ මාධ්‍ය හැසිරීම (ලංකාදීප පුවත්පතට විශේෂිතව සිදු කරන ලද අධ්‍යයනයක්)(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Wanigasingha, C.B.; Attanayaka, A.M.S.K.ජනාධිපතිවරණයකදී ඡන්දය ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට පැය නවයක කාලයකට සීමා වුව ද කුමන පක්ෂයක කුමන අපේක්ෂකයාට ඡන්දය භාවිත කළ යුතු ද යන මතය නිර්මාණය කිරීමට බොහෝ කාලයක් ගත වනු ඇත. එකී මතය නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ මෙහෙවර ජනමාධ්‍ය මෙන්ම අද්‍යයතනයේ දී නව මාධ්‍යයන් ද විසින් සිදු කරනු ඇත. මෙම අධ්‍යයනයේ දී 2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණය කාල සීමාව තුළ දී පුවත්පත් මාධ්‍ය තුළ වාර්තාරකණය සිදු කළ ආකාරය දිනපතා ලංකාදීප පුවත්පතට විශේෂිතව අධ්‍යයනය කෙරේ. 2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී ලංකාදීප පුවත්පතෙහි මාධ්‍ය හැසිරීම කෙබඳු ද? යන්න විමසා බැලීම මෙම පර්යේෂණයේ මූලික ගැටලුව විය. 2019 ජනාධිපතිවරණයේදී ලංකාදීප පුවත්පතෙහි මාධ්‍ය හැසිරීම පිළිබඳ අධ්‍යයනය කිරීම මෙම පර්යේෂණයේ අරමුණ වේ. මෙම පර්යේෂණය සඳහා අන්තර්ගත විශ්ලේෂණ ක්‍රමය යොදා ගන්නා ලදී. ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා නාමයෝජනා ඉදිරිපත් වූ 2019 ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස 07 වන දිනයේ සිට ජනාධිපතිවරණය පැවැත් වූ 2019 නොවැම්බර් මස 16 දින දක්වා මුද්‍රිත, දිනපතා ලංකාදීප පුවත්පත්වල පළ වූ පුවත්, විශේෂ පිටු සහ අතිරේක, විශේෂාංග ලිපි, කතුවැකි හා කාටුන් පිළිබඳ අන්තර්ගත විශ්ලේෂණය සිදු කරන ලදී. පුවත්පතේ මුල් පිටුව තුළ පළ වූ පුවත් හා සිරස්තල තුළ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට වැඩි අවස්ථාවක් ලබා දී ඇති බව නිගමනය විය. ප්‍රධාන ශීර්ෂපාඨය මගින් කිසිදු අපේක්‍ෂකයෙකුට සෘජුවම සහය පළ කරන ආකාරයේ වාර්තාකරණයක් සිදු කොට නොතිබුණ ආකාරයත් යම් අවස්ථාවන්වලදී ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට වක්‍රාකාරයෙන් සහය පළවන ආකාරයේ පුවත් වාර්තා කරණයක් සිදු කොට ඇත. පුවත්පතේ හැඩය යම් යම් අවස්ථාවන් තුළ වෙනස් වී ඇති අතර මුල් පිටුවට පෙර විශේෂ පිටුවක් එකතු කොට ඇති බව නිගමනය විය. මැතිවරණ කාලසීමාවක් තුළ දී රටේ ජනමාධ්‍ය හැසිරීම කෙබඳු විය යුතු ද යන්න පිළිබඳව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව මගින් 2019 අති විශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රයක් මගින් 2019 සැප්තැම්බර් මස 12 වැනි බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද මාධ්‍ය උපමානයන් අනුව සෑම මුද්‍රිත මාධ්‍යයක්ම යම් මැතිවරණයක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් වාර්තා කිරීමේ දී මධ්‍යස්ථ සහ අපක්‍ෂපාතී විය යුතු බව මූලික යෝජනාව වේ.Item Administering Environment Management Process for a Sustainable Development in Sri Lanka: The Case of Open Waste Disposal at Guhagoda(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Somarathna, D. H. A. S.All modern states have implemented new policy programs and projects have been planned and implemented regarding solid waste management Sri Lanka which is expecting, sustainable environmental development too prepared and implemented various mechanisms for solid waste management against such a background, some of the solid waste management programmers implemented in Sri Lanka are facing a charge that such programmers have become a threat to human health which has in turn become a serious social problem. Main objectives of this study is to find out how far the impact of these programs have become a threat to human health and human security. Under the qualitative research plan Guhagoda area was selected as the study field. 05 officers from Harispattuwa Pradeshiya Sabha, 05 officers from the Central Environmental Authority, 05 persons belonging to the Waste Management Unit of Kandy Municipality and 25 persons were selected as the sample. In the collection of Primary Data, interviews and observation were used while for the collection of secondary from secondary sources were used. For the analysis of overall data system, the descriptive method was used. One of the main facts revealed from the research study was that informal method of solid waste disposal at Guhagoda has a definite impact on the human health and human security. Due to failure in recycling the solid waste various poisonous gas in emitted to the environment while poisonous chemicals have got mixed with underground water. Due to these things the people of the area are subject to respiratory diseases, heart problems and skin diseases. Accordingly, environmental development targets priority should be given for environmental protection and human protection and in planning implementation of solid waste management plans, it is necessary consider environmental factors community oriented ideas and new technology and the specialized knowledge of environmentalistItem Age Group and Financial Literacy Rate; Based On Wewala West GN Division(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Perera, P. G. T. N.Financial decision making is an integral part of daily life of people. Most of financial decisions are made as own decision without advise of financial specialists. Financial literacy has direct impact on financial decision making. In present society there are some troubles with lack of financial literacy. According to the previous literature in many countries, one can identify various factors are affecting to financial literacy rate. Main objective of this study is identifying the age group which is highly financial literate in Sri Lankan context. As well as identifying the other factors affected to financial literacy rate. This study was selected 300 households using simple random sampling technique as the sample from 1442 number of households in the Wewala West GN division which is the population of this study. Here only used primary data for research purposes and they were collected through structured questionnaire which designed as three main parts according to collect qualitative data. Questionnaire contained basically 2 parts as demographic data and financial literacy data. For the analysis purposes analytical tools that validity analysis, frequency analysis, factor analysis, weighted average, chi square test and also one way ANOVA have used for analysis part of this study. Study was constructed index for financial literacy is between 0 - 5.02. Using these index values categorized people two categories as high and low financial literate using the median value of index. This study find that gender, household’s monthly income, education level, sector of job and age category are significantly affecting factor for the financial literacy rate while race is not significantly affect to financial literacy rate. Education level and age are the most important factors among the affected factors. And also this study finds that there is a different between age groups on financial literacy rate and people between age 36-50 and also above 60 groups are significantly have high level of financial literacy rateItem Age Group and Financial Literacy Rate; Special Reference to Wewala West GN Division(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics 2018/2019. Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Perera, P. G. T. N.Financial literacy has direct impact on financial decision making. In present society there are some troubles with lack of financial literacy. According to the previous literature in many countries, one can identify various factors are affecting to financial literacy rate. Main objective of this study is identifying the age group which is highly financial literate in Sri Lankan context. As well as identifying the other factors affected to financial literacy rate. This study was selected 300 households using simple random sampling technique as the sample from 1442 number of households in the Wewala West GN division which is the population of this study. Here only used primary data for research purposes and they were collected through structured questionnaire. For the analysis purposes analytical tools that validity analysis, frequency analysis, factor analysis, weighted average, chi square test and also one-way ANOVA have used for analysis part of this study. This study finds that gender, household’s monthly income, education level, sector of job and age category are significantly affecting factor for the financial literacy rate while race is not significantly affect to financial literacy rate. Education level and age are the most important factors among the affected factors. And also this study finds that there is a different between age groups on financial literacy rate and people between age 36-50 and also above 60 groups are significantly have high level of financial literacy rate.Item Analysis on Using Colour Psychology in Political Communication(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Perera, U.L.H.D.“Communication” is a Latin word which means “to share”. When simply describes it means sending and receiving information between two or more people. It includes the sharing of ideas, concepts, imaginations, behaviours and written content. There are three major steps in communication. Those are as, thought, encoding and decoding. The thought means, the subject of the information which is in senders mind. When the idea or the concept go through as a verbal or written message for another person then it define as encoding. After the message is received by the receiver, he/she read it and understands it. He may translate the information to better understand it. So decoding refers to the interpretation of information from the perspective of the receiver. There are two types in communication as verbal and non-verbal. Verbal communication means sharing information through speech. Non-verbal communication means, sharing ideas between two without using words. Non –verbal communication includes with eye contact, postures, gestures, facial expressions, and Chromatics. However, when communication came to the political communication it means, a process that includes political institutions and actors, the news media and, importantly citizens. There are three key players of political communication as, leaders, media and public. Political communication can be harnessed for positive and negative purposes. However Chromatics its mean colours are most powerful and important communication tool and it is interact with religious, cultural, political and social influences. In the present era colours are playing a considerable role in political communication and also it influenced for political phenomenas. Also the message that communicate for the society by colours are various from country to country. As an example in China, red is a symbol of good luck. In South Africa, red is symbolic of mourning. If you’re “in the red” on Wall Street, you’re losing money. In Jamaica, if you’re red, you’re drunk. In U.S. politics, Red is using by Republican Party. Worldwide, red is the color of communism. However, above brief introduction express that colours are more powerful in political communication. Anyhow, main objective of this paper is to analyze on using colour psychology in political communication. This study is based on secondary data which obtain by scholarly articles, books, reports and other sources. Also content analysis used as for the methodogy. Finally the study revels that the colour psychology play a critical role in political communication and in the present era it has influenced to shape the public opinion tooItem Business model of free newspaper and Sri Lankan Newspaper Industry (A study on the behavior of newspaper readers)(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Ruwanpathirana, I.Information acts very important role in human society. Though there are many other sources of information, newspaper still plays an essential role as the conveyer of information. But as time went by the shape and format of the newspaper has been changed. In this context free newspaper was introduced to the world as a successful business model. Free newspaper is a publication which contains current news, published at least four times a week, revenue depends on the advertisements and available free of charge at public places in the city.Though many developed countries are doing business well with this concept, it’s still new to Sri Lanka. So if we are going to start a free newspaper in Sri Lanka, there is a question that, how Sri Lankan audience will react to this product. The behavior of consumer is more and more important when we are developing a new product or service. Newspaper reader is the ultimate consumer of a free newspaper. Therefore the main objective of this study is to find out the possibility to start a free newspaper in Sri Lanka by researching the behavior of newspaper readers in Sri Lanka. 100 respondents from Colombo city were taken in to the sample by using random sampling technique. Researcher was conscious to select commuters instead of just taking people who live in Colombo. It’s because, free newspaper is mainly published targeting the commuters in countries where free newspaper has got the popularity. Rational for selecting Colombo city is, it is the largest metropolitan city and major economic center in Sri Lanka. And that makes Colombo the most suitable location, if some company wishes to start a free newspaper in near future. Questionnaire survey was performed to collect data. The computer software SPSS 19.0 was used to analysis data and calculates values.It was found that the number of regular newspaper readers is low and highest amount of non-readers are teenagers who are in the age group of 15-19. When we analyze the behavior of Sri Lankan commuters, 54% people said that they do nothing during the commuting time. 23% sleep. 12% listen to radio or music. 8% chat with friend. Only 3% answered that they read something. It was proved that majority of Sri Lankan’s do not have a habit of reading while traveling. But it was revealed by this study that majority of people would like to have a free newspaper one day. But they have no idea what the free newspaper is. At last it was proved that though there are both positive and negative facts, people haven’t dumped newspaper yet. Even though there are a number of nonreaders, creative strategic plan can turn these non-readers to readers. It is a good opportunity which we can use creatively with new product to establish free newspaper concept in Sri Lankan newspaper industryItem The causality between growth and female labor force participation in SriLanka(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Priyadarshani, W.I.; Dias, D.G.P.T.Economic growth and development is essential and important for the survival and stability of a nation. Human power is one of the basic determinates of economic growth. By using all its potential, economic growth can be improved. Women are also a part of the human power that can have an important role in the economic growth of a country. Numerous studies on income and female labor participation have been done on the basic of western countries. The Asian culture is very different in relation to western culture and women labor force had been influenced by women .Therefore, the causality between this two is in the context of the Asia pacific region of Sri Lanka in comparison to the western countries. The main objective of this study is to determine the causality between income and female labor force participation in Sri Lanka. Then, this research investigates the causality between female labor force participation rates and economic growth. According to Goldin and Tansel, Economic development and women’s economic activity have shown a U-shaped relationship in several studies Noreen and Zafar, Error correlation model was- applied to explore the correlation between the economic growth and Female labor force participation. The results show long-run correlation between female labor force participation rate & economic growth. The present mainly based on the secondary data published by the department of Census and Statics and Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The used annual time series data on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and female labor force participation rate during period 1990 to 2017.The utilize Unit root test and Granger causality test to examine the causality between economic growth and female labor force participation in Sri Lanka. The data used in this study were analyzed by using EViews 9 software. According to these result shows that there is no causality between female labor force participation and economic growth in Sri LankaItem Changing Population Growth Rate & Its Determinants with the Beginning of 21th Century(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Liyanapathirana, L.N.M.Item Child violence occurring due to watching cartoons(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Bopitiya, D.H.Child violence have been occurring over decades in Sri Lanka, though it has not been able to make an influence to the society as child abusing. Therefore the purpose of this study was to find that, ‘do watching cartoons make children more violent’, considering urban area children. The data was obtained from a sample of 50 selected using convenience sampling, from Nadimala Grama Sewa Division of Dehiwala-Galkissa urban area, conducted through a questionnaire and interview. Descriptive statistics including mean and correlation, and inferential statistics including Chi square test were used to analyze the data, using SPSS and MS Excel. The Chi-square test run for ‘the preference of children towards the scene of the cartoon program’ and ‘the nature of the child’ showed that, the variables are dependent. The dependency of the variables, ‘nature of the imitating characters’ and ‘nature of the child’ was proved by the Chi-square test, which means the children who prefer violent characters show the violence in their real life. Therefore it can be concluded that, the data elucidate watching cartoon characters have been made children more violent, among urban area childrenItem Childhood Obesity and Academic Performance at School(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Assalla, A.D. N. P.Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. Children who are obese are above the normal weight for their age and height. Childhood obesity leads to its related noncommunicable diseases and psychosocial health problems of children. Childhood obesity increases the risk of adulthood obesity and obesity related diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Successful academic performance is important during the school years and is also a strong predictor of occupational and social success in adult life. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine the association between children’s overweight status and their academic achievements. This study was based on primary and secondary data. Primary data were obtained from a cross-sectional survey conducted through a structured questionnaire in Gampaha district. Simple random sampling method were used to select 80 students. Descriptive statistics including mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics comprising chi square test, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze data using SPSS and Excel. Overweight students both girls and boys achieved lower average marks for math and language than their non-overweight peers. Age, gender, mother’s BMI, father’s BMI, skipping breakfast, eating fast foods and snacks have identified as key determinant for the development of obesity. The overweight students also demonstrated significantly more detentions, worsened school attendance and less participation on sports. This study has identified that, obesity is negatively associated with academic performance in both gender at schoolItem Childhood Obesity and Academic Performance at School(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Assalla, A.D.N.P.Children who are obese are above the normal weight for their age and height. Childhood obesity increases the risk of adulthood obesity and obesity-related diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Successful academic performance is important during the school years and is also a strong predictor of occupational and social success in adult life. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine the association between children’s overweight status and their academic performance. Primary data were obtained from a cross-sectional survey conducted through a structured questionnaire. This study was selected 80 students using simple random sampling techniques as the sample in Attanagalla Divisional Secretariat. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and logistic regression analysis were used to analyze data. Overweight students both girls and boys achieved lower average marks for math and language than their non-overweight peers. It was identified that obesity is negatively associated with academic performance in both genders at school. Age, gender, mother’s BMI, father’s BMI, skipping breakfast, eating fast foods, and snacks have been identified as the key determinant for the development of obesity. The overweight students also demonstrated significantly more detentions, worsened school attendance, and less participation in the school athletic team.Item Chinese Strategies towards Hegemonic Power Position(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Kumarasingha, M.W.While the US has steadily been on the wane, China has risen as a hegemonic power in the international arena. China's economic, political and military influence has been increasing from the different perspective. In 2016, China was the world largest exporter and second largest importer of the merchandise goods. It also had the world's largest Foreign Exchange Reserves, as of January 2018, China is the number one US treasury holder. Already China has been dominated South Asia, Africa and Latin America by strategically. By using different investment project and unconditional economic assistance, taken the powerful political decision, as well as augmentation of Confucianism China, has been focused on Global hegemony. This study examine the strategies used by China towards becoming as global hegemony by defeating US’s unipolar system. And further, it examines by these dramatically and strategically influence, weather China will be able to be a superpower? This study based on the secondary data derived from various websites, previous research related to the subject area, World Bank report and consider qualitative manner analysis. Today the biggest challenge for the United States is to use old and new strategies of both co-operation and coercion to manage the rise of China. But it can ascertain that using various strategies China will succeed the US as the Global hegemony within the next 10 or 20 years and the fate of the world will be changed in the most extensive procedureItem Compatibility of Sri Lanka’s Labour Law Standards with ones in TPPA – A legal analysis(4th National Research Conference on Applied Social Statistics, Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Anuththara, K.K.G.The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a controversial trade agreement involving 12 countries that is stratergically well positioned to address many of labour law standards among other basic discussions. TPP include a comprehensive labour chapter which promote compliance with internationally recognized labour rights. It highly encourage the freedom of association , elimination of all forms of forced labour, effective abolition child labour, the elimination of discrimination in employment and an acceptable conditions of work with respect to minimum wages. TPPA is likely to ensure the expansion of existing laws relating to the labour standards and the partner countries would achieve a labour friendly environment. If Sri Lanka decide to be a party to this agreement it is very important to analyse this labour chapter. Sri Lanka is a member of ILO and has ratified about 31 international labour conventions including al the ILO’s core labour conventions. Laws relating to Sri Lanka labour standards are laid down in almost about 50 statues according to the Labour Law Department of SL.This paper analyse the existing labour law standards in Sri Lanka and it’s compatibility with TPP labour standards through associated theoretical literature in comparison with the chapter 19 of the TPPA. It has identified that Sri Lanka already having a sufficient amount of laws more likely to the TPPA standards but not a well recognized mechanism to connect them with globalized issues and respond them practically and it requires more amendments to the existing laws in accordance with recent trendsItem Consumer awareness and satisfaction about the functioning of the financial institution system in Sri Lanka(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Upekshanee, N.B.P.The financial institutional systems that began with the trade-off of the goods system and began with the use of money are now operating through a very complex system of institutions. The functionality of the current financial institutional system in Sri Lanka is examined here. The research problems are there is proper knowledge and understanding about the financial institutional system of Sri Lanka, Do the customers satisfy with the performance of the financial institution system in Sri Lanka and there is a difference in efficiency between public sector banks and private banks. The main objectives of the research are to examine whether consumers have proper knowledge and understanding of the functioning of the financial institution system in Sri Lanka, whether customers are satisfied with the performance of the financial institution system in Sri Lanka, and whether there is a difference in efficiency between public sector banks and private banks. Gampaha district was selected as the research area for the data collection and the primary data was collected through sixty questionnaires under four age groups. Tables, charts and graphs are used for data representation. Data analysis shows that customers transact with banks at least once a month and private banks are ahead of state banks in terms of friendliness and hospitality. About 55% of people maintain their savings, accounts in state banks on account of their accountability and security. The people with a monthly income of over Rs. 100,000 who use bank current accounts and get a general level of satisfaction. Most people over the age of 35 have taken out a bank loan and are generally satisfied with it. The majority of people use debit cards based on increased efficiency and get highly satisfied across it. Due to ignorance there are very few users of the eBook service. Many people are tempted to buy vehicles under the leasing facility and get a normal level of satisfaction.Item Contribution of the major sectors of Sri Lankan Economy(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Sewwandi, H.L.A.M.The Economy of Sri Lanka mainly depends on three major sectors which are agriculture, industry and services that are highly contributing to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a year, or over a given period of time. The main objective of this research is to study the contribution of major sectors such agriculture, industry and services to the economic growth of Sri Lanka. The data is secondary time series of all the variables and taken over the duration of 2005-2019. This data is approximately 15 years past. Main source of data is Central bank of Sri Lanka and Department of census and statistics. Moreover, for drawing useful inference from the available secondary data, the statistical tools and test like correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis have been used to analyze these data using SPSS and Excel. Finally, the study concludes that there is significant difference among the performance of the three sectors with regard to GDP contribution in the period 2005- 2019. There is higher positive degree of correlation between three major sectors and GDP growth rate of Sri Lanka. Each one-unit increase in Agriculture growth rate is associated with 0.847 unit increases in GDP growth rate, holding all other variables constant. Each one-unit increase in industry growth rate is associated with 0.189 unit increases in GDP growth rate, holding all other variables constant.Item Covid – 19 Pandemic and Unemployment in Sri Lanka(Department of Social Statisctics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Weerasinghe, M.G.D.L; Madhuwanthi, Y.I.; Wijemanna, P.R.The Covid-19 pandemic also known as the corona virus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of in the world. This pandemic has affected economic and social activities all over the world. There are lot of countries have locked down their economies. Unemployed persons available and/or looking for work, and who did not work and taken steps to find a job during last 4 weeks and ready to accept a job given a work opportunity within next two weeks are defined as unemployed. Unemployment is a key measure of economic health. Sri Lankan labor force has 8.6 million of economically active population in the 4th quarter of 2019.Because of this pandemic employment protection has been threatened and the loss of income. The problem is how to affect Covid -19 pandemic to unemployment in Sri Lanka? Objectives of this study, is to identify the relationship between these two, how this situation affects to Sri Lankan economy, due to the impact of new trade routes, export import orientation, international trade and advancement of new transportation system we as a country experience the impact of globalization. In this study, primary data from questionnaire and secondary data from quarterly data reports of Census and Statistics department, Sri Lanka have used to this study and used descriptive statistics for represent data and used some statistical data packages for data analysis.The challenge that Sri Lanka faces now is that how to take control over economy regenerated employment opportunities and take relevant measures protect existing employment in the labor market through proper labor market reforms. As a result of this study we found the unemployment rate got increased because of the pandemic and these two have positive relationship. The final conclusion is that the objectives have been achieved.Item Current Issues and Policies to Address Inefficiencies of Coconut Industry(5th National Conference on Applied Social Statistics (NRCASS) - 2019, Department of Social Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Rathnayake, R. M. D. H.Coconut is one of the major plantation crops in Sri Lanka which accounts for approximately 12% of all agricultural produce in Sri Lanka. Total land area under cultivation is 395,000 hectares and about 2,500 million nuts are produced per year. According to the CRI forecast, the annual coconut yield for the year 2019 is 2828 million nuts (Sri Lanka Coconut Statistics 2017 Coconut Development Authority) and it is 10.% increase compared to the Annual National Coconut Production (ANCP) in year 2016 (2736 Mn. nuts). The coconut industry is an important source of foreign exchange, and an essential component of Sri Lankan cuisine, nutrition and rural livelihood. Coconut based products are from the Kernel, Shell, Husk, and fibber based. The main research problem of the study is although coconut production has increased significantly, the coconut processing industry has failed to absorb excess nuts. There is a rapid decline in price of coconut with this harvest and due to that coconut growers and coconut oil producers have experienced problems. Farm gate price of nuts has decreased significantly while reaching to a level where the price is less than the cost of production. This study is use both Primary and secondary data .The main tool that was used for data collection was questionnaire, and the data gathered from the Coconut Research Institute, Coconut Development Authority and Coconut Cultivation Board. Finally, Coconut Industry is hailed as the third largest net foreign exchange earner and one of the largest contributors towards the Gross Domestic Product of Our Nation. Coconut harvest is high this year so that the farm gate prices of a coconut has fallen. As there is no restriction on the export of coconuts, can be proposes to promote exports and Formulate a policy framework for the coconut industry of Sri Lanka to meet new challengesItem Customer switching behaviour in the Sri Lankan retail banking Industry(Social Statistics Students’ Association, Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, D.K.S.M.A.