Sri Lanka Journal of Economics, Statistics, and Information Management

Abstract

The Sri Lanka Journal of Economics, Statistics, and Information Management (SLJESIM) is proud to announce the publication of its second issue of volume one. One of the key objectives of SLJESIM is to promote publication from different streams of research that help enrich future the discourse on Economics, Statistics, and Information Management. As Journals are inevitable scientific communication channels for academic and research institutions, the SLJESIM is a double-blind peer-reviewed open access, published two times per year by the Department of Economics and Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, SUSL. The journal accommodates three types of papers; review papers, conceptual papers, and empirical papers that employ quantitative, qualitative, and /or mixed methods approaches. Review papers provide critical and concise yet comprehensive and contemporary reviews of a particular theme specific to Economics, Statistics, and Information Management. This issue owes a great deal to many people. Especially, acknowledgement is due first to the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) project for allocating funds under activity five of the AHEAD/RA2/ELTA/ELSE/SUSL/SSL/OVAA/30 to develop a collaborative research culture among local and international researchers. Thanks, are also due to the Editorial Board that drew up the parameters of the journal enabling to publishing of scholarly work as well as to the Coordinating Editor for popularizing the journal and accelerating the review process. Moreover, it also acknowledged the service of the Text-Editor who has so generously given his time and expertise for editing and proofreading. Most of all, thanks must be expressed to all the reviewers for their professionalism and attention to detail which made seeing this issue in “print” a real pleasure. On this momentous occasion, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all the authors for their valuable contributions through research articles. Best wishes and thank you in advance for your contribution to the journal.