Invest in Sri Lanka needs a step change in strategy
In the backdrop of the financial crisis, when the dreaded flood hit Sri Lanka, my mind went back to the time of 2007/08 when the war was ranging at its highest with the prices of petroleum touching $ 150 and foreign reserves were at just one month, I met the former World Bank Economist for South Asia Ejaz Ghani. I asked him what would happen to the country in such a backdrop. His words were crystal clear: “Don’t worry, God is a Sri Lankan.” True to his word, the commodity
