Some of the new economic initiatives announced by the Sri Lankan government about integrating the economy with the wider world, initially acquiring land to create special
economic zones where large scale investment projects from India and
China are to be invited to locate, are a refreshing departure from an
economically dysfunctional post-independence mindset of nationalist
pre-conception of the national interest as a zero sum game with the
world beyond: their gain is our loss and our gain is their loss. Sri
Lanka at the time of independence boasted an economy more prosperous, a
population that was better educated and a society which was largely free
of the worst dysfunctional aspects of religion which characterize the
neighbouring countries of the sub-continent. Yet the country became
ensnared by angst over identity and suspicious of opening up the economy
to the world at a time when development was fueled by trade. The
changed mindset informing recent economic initiatives holds out
prospects for greater prosperity. Read more>>>
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