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Sri Lankan PM calls for single regional market By Our Special Correspondent Photo: Vino John
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, with M.S. Swaminathan and the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N. Ram, at the Millennium Lecture organised by The Hindu Media Resource Centre for Sustainable Development, MSSRF, Chennai on Saturday. CHENNAI AUG. 23. The Sri Lankan Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, today called for the development of the South India-Sri Lanka sub-region as a single market that would provide more opportunities for the economic growth of both countries, in the context of the emergence of a global economy in which markets increasingly transcend political borders. Delivering the Millennium Lecture organised here by The Hindu Media Resource Centre for Sustainable Development, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, he said: "The world has changed and integrated, regional markets are fast becoming the means for economic and political success." Old policies of government intervention to protect domestic markets no longer worked, and protectionism was doomed to fail in the new economy. | |
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