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Calling India “the next growth centre” with potential to trigger growth in all of South Asia, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he wants to upgrade the existing free-trade agreement between the two countries into a more wide-ranging economic and technology cooperation pact, and to harness the “synergies” of Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu. At an interaction with scholars at Harvard University’s Centre for International Development on March 24, Wickremesinghe laid out an economic recovery plan for Sri Lanka that includes increasing the country’s international trade by more than 100 per cent of its GDP, developing Sri Lanka as...
