Accelerating Future Outcomes: Driving Trade, Investment and Services
In shaping a fast track to a turnaround, focus areas driving the future of trade, investment and services will require great planning, execution and synchronisation.
In this light, on day-two of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2018, a session titled ‘Accelerating Future Outcomes: Trade, Investment and Services’ will be organised at the premier annual economic discussion by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
The focus of this session will be on making sound trade and investment reforms effective bearing in mind in global developments and the trade-investment nexus. Strategies to synchronise multiple policy initiatives (FTAS, FDI regulations, National Export Strategy, Trade Facilitation, Trade Remedies) with Sri Lanka’s overall National Trade Policy and Investment Policy, will be debated by top researchers, private sector representatives and economists. Furthermore, they will discuss on whether these initiatives need refining and what more reforms need to be put in place to compliment or enhance the impact of existing reforms. A key national discussion on the development of services through either trade agreements or other measures will be taken up for deliberation in this session as well.
Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations Director and Chief Executive Dr. Rajat Kathuria and World Bank USAID (Lead Economist) Consultant Dr. Nihal Pitigala will be the speakers for this session. Thereafter, joining them in a panel discussion will be BPPL Holdings MD/CEO Dr. Anush Amerasinghe, KIK Lanka (Pvt.) Ltd Marketing and Strategy Director Nadie Kahatapitiya Algama and Verite Research (Pvt.) Ltd Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe.
Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute Acting Executive Director Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja will be the moderator for this discussion.
Sri Lanka Economic Summit is the ideal platform for chairpersons, CEOS, directors, senior managers, foreign investors, senior government officials, and academics, to engage in an expert discussion of the nation’s economy. Registration for the two-day summit is on a first-come, first-served basis, therefore register early to avoid disappointment.