Various international organizations and foreign advisors suggested that developing countries should focus primarily on foreign direct investment (FDI) as a source of external finance. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to find out the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth in the Sri Lankan Perspective. Data on the foreign direct investment and economic growth from the year 1990 to 2011 were collected for the study purpose. Further, the results revealed that, there is no significant impact of FDI on the economic growth, which is in lowest level. Only 4.3 percent of the variance in the dependent variable has been found. In contrast, we found that, in the Sri Lankan context, there is a long run equilibrium relationship between FDI and economic growth rate. Statistical findings on the basic regression analysis, Co integration test and Granger causality test show the contradiction in terms of the findings. Meantime, scholars in the econometrics stated that, Co integration test generally is applied among time series data. Due to that, Co integration test give the insights to the findings in terms of long run view. Finally, we have suggested that, the Sri Lankan Government and Central Bank of Sri Lanka jointly should take the necessary action to focus on the infrastructure development through the FDI to get the economic growth in the long term view. Meantime, FDI should be directed to agricultural actives to get the food sufficient aspects in the local and globalized level.

The primary aim of the study is to identify whether there are any significant mean differences among demographic variables such as gender, age group, faculty, teaching language and experience of university teachers employed at the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka on the usage of electronic information resources (EIR). The study employs independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA (f-test) to test the operational hypotheses. The survey method used in this study is a questionnaire and a total of 75 usable responses were obtained using stratified random sampling technique. The t-test revealed a statistically significant difference between the mean number of usage of electronic information resources and gender (t = 5.099, p < 0.05) with the highest mean value of male university teachers. According to the f-test, there are significant mean differences among age group, teaching language and experiences of teachers on the usage of electronic information resources, whereas mean usage of electronic information resources do not differ significantly among five different faculties (F = 2.075, p > 0.05). This study would hopefully benefit to the academicians, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners of Sri Lanka as well as other countries.