Sri Lanka needs stable liberal policies, property rights, to get export oriented FDI: economist

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka should have a stable liberal policy framework with free trade and strong property rights to draw foreign direct investors who will build East Asian-style global production networks, a top trade economist has said.

To attract foreign investors into merchandise exports, concurrent trade and investment liberalisation is needed, Prema-Chandra Athukorala, professor of economics at Australia National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, said in Colombo.

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