In former socialist countries, neoliberal reform promised to replace stagnation with growth and development. Many places, however, experienced a decade of economic decline, accompanied by rising poverty. Although even the worst performing economies managed positive growth rates by 1999-2000, this growth starts from levels as low as 36 percent of 1989 levels. Less recognized than the problem of rising poverty is the erosion of development gains in countries once characterized by high human development. This article distinguishes de-development from the widely recognized issue of poverty. The authors find that transition outcomes are mixed but that de-development can be seen in parts of Central and Eastern Europe and most of the former Soviet Union. One important question is how to use renewed growth to prevent further erosion of development and to recapture lost gains.

This study is to prove the impact of different motives in updating Facebook status and role of personality in Facebook updates. Therefore, the study is focus to identify the impact of motive namely validation, communication and self-expression on Facebook status updates while it is examining the moderation effect of individual personality on original relationship. As study is based on the Facebook users, population of the study consist of all Facebook users and based on the convenience sampling method researchers have selected 252 Facebook users in Sri Lanka as the sample of the study. Data were collected from the sample using a researcher developed questionnaire. In order to prove hypotheses and make inferences, regression analysis was employed in the study. Moreover, regression analysis proved that there is an impact from validation, communication and self-expression on Facebook status updates. Further, the relationship between validation, communication and self-expression with Facebook status update is moderated by the extraversion and openness to experience. Based on the inferences of the study, it can be concluded that validation, communication and selfexpression act as motives to update Facebook status and the intensity of that motives depend on the personality of an individual.

In the fast-moving technological world, innovations such as Renewable Energy Sources available in the form of Solar Electricity have started playing a significant role in people’s day-to-day lives. The impact of changes or expected changes in a given population’s Standard of living as a reason for such a dramatic shift in electricity consumption is a field of interest that has not been thoroughly examined in the existing literature. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine and assess the relationship between the Household shift to solar electricity and the Standard of Living, in an attempt to conclude statistically whether such a shift would be a matter of Standard of Living with regard to a developing nation in the South Asian region, namely, Sri Lanka. The research design has taken into consideration the Household size, Economic Status and the Standard of Living in relation to the two-folded sources of electricity used in Sri Lanka, Solar and Grid electricity. The study has based its roots on the existing literature in relation to the Developed countries carried out by Schelly in 2014. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to carry out investigations related to the aforementioned relationship and Chi-square values and Mann-Whitney U Test Values were used as statistical measurements to arrive at conclusions, respectively.

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