The Kandy News Online Edition: January 2013: Sri Lanka’s Top Three Think Tanks

The Kandy News Online Edition: January 2013 The Kandy News, founded in 1994 is a bilingual – English and Sinhala community newspaper that focuses mainly on matters of importance to the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka's Top Three Think Tanks Jan 30th 2013, 12:32 Sri Lanka’s top three think tanks are the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), and the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in that order says the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA. The three think tanks are named in the 2012 GLOBAL GO TO THINK TANKS REPORT AND POLICY ADVICE Report that was released last week in Washington, D.C. The authors of the report had invited over 6,600 think tanks from 182 countries to participate in the evaluation process that had been done by a group of experts drawn from all parts of the world. Fourteen think tanks located in Sri Lanka had been evaluated under the project. Brookings Institution in USA is named as the number one think tank in the world. Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) has been the named as the best in Asia. The highest ranked South Asian think tank is Centre for Civil Society (CCS), New Delhi, India at number 51.  Excluding Indian think tanks the only other South Asian think tank that secures a place in the global top one hundred is Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) at number 98.

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