The Island’s trade deficit increased by 4.7 percent to 8 billion US dollars in 2014 from 7.6 billion US dollars in 2013.
He said the regulator targets an 8 percent economic growth in year 2015.
I have seen some people saying that Sri Lanka does not have the capacity to have an 8 percent growth?
Now that is because they have not gone through carefully on the new additions that have come to the structure of our economy,
Our structure of the economy has changed. We have built new infrastructure. We have built new capacity. We have new areas of development which will be the drivers of the economic activity for the future,
Now that also have to be factored in, if you look at the potential output and potential output growth in a country.
Sri