Pakistani businessmen to explore Lankan potential
Sri Lanka is the next economic miracle success story emerging in Asia
and Pakistani businessmen and investors should enter this promising
market.
Sri Lanka Consul General in Karachi, D W Jinadasa said the Sri Lankan
economy is expected to record an eight percent growth in 2010, while the
GDP per capita has more than doubled to over $2,000 in the last five
years.
These developments had led international financial institutions like
the IMF and the World Bank to categorise Sri Lanka as a Newly Emerging
Middle Income Country.
He said the bilateral trade pattern between the two countries is
limited to traditional products therefore the business communities of
both countries should explore trade and investment opportunities
available in each other’s countries.
Jinadasa said Sri Lanka was beginning to present tremendous emerging
investment opportunities as the country had become a haven of peace, and
investors from all over the world were keenly following developments.
He invited Pakistani businessmen to visit Sri Lanka and see
first-hand for themselves the opportunities that awaited them in agri-processing,
dairy and agriculture, sugar, textile processing, cement,
pharmaceutical, information technology and the hotel industry.
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