India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement: Sri Lanka Reaping the Benefits from Preferential Trade
When it comes to free trade agreements, Sri Lanka should not lament about the trade deficit or the export basket but move forward with the rest of the world to gain maximum benefits from such FTAs. The India-Sri Lanka FTA has worked in favor of Sri Lanka but more work needs to be done to broaden and deepen it to reap the maximum benefits from it for Sri Lanka in an equitable manner.
Regional Economic Integration in the Bay of Bengal
06 June 2017 marks 20 years since the establishment of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral, Technical, and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), an international organization involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia, including Sri Lanka. To mark this occasion, Dr. Kelegama, Executive Director of IPS, argues that the two key functional aspects of BIMSTEC, which are market-driven integration and government-driven integration, should be utilized selectively to seek quick gains to the region.
Challenges Remain for Sri Lanka-China FTA
Although China–Sri Lanka trade had been growing steadily beforehand, China was not a large trading partner of Sri Lanka until 2005, which was a turning point in China–Sri Lankan economic relations. In the mid-2000s, China was increasingly asserting its global …
Demystifying Hawala/Undiyal – The Not So Dismal Science:[…] believed that informal fund transfer operations in Sri Lanka have expanded considerably due to the wide gap between the…