Part I: National Export Strategy 2018-22: Disrupt the economy fast if the goals are to be attained
Applauding strategy: Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with a copy of the National Export Strategy (NES) launched. Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama, International Trade Centre (ITC) Executive Director Arancha Gonzalez, Delegation of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives ChargĂ© d’ Affaires Paul Godfrey and Export Development Board Chairperson Indira Malwatte are also present - Pic by Lasantha Kumara 
Monday, 30 July 2018
A belated national export strategy
Sri Lanka’s Export Development Board, better known as EDB, released the country’s National Export Strategy, dubbed as NES, last week after conducting a series of national consultations for over a year with main stakeholders (available at: http://www.srilankabusiness.com/national-export-strategy/ ). It is a late product, coming out after three-and-a-half years since the present good governance Government came to power in January 2015. It is also late by two-and-a-half years, since Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe outlined his export strategy in the first Economic Policy Statement or EPS presented to Parliament in November 2015.
