Saman Kelegama: Even the blood running through his veins is oriented to economics
The bearded economist who saw shortcomings of Sri Lanka’s liberalisation move
My association with Dr. Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies or IPS, dates back to the early 1990s when I had the opportunity to listen to him at an international conference on trade liberalisation. At that time, it was a cardinal sin to pinpoint shortcomings of the trade liberalisation experiment which Sri Lanka had initiated a decade earlier, but t
