Investor Presentaiton
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Way Forward
Sri Lanka's export share in India is 5%, Pakistan 0.7%, and China 1%. It is
time to fully exploit ISLBFTA, PSLBFTA, SAFTA, and APTA to penetrate these
markets further
Growing markets are in China, India, East Asia, and Middle East and they
are the future markets and early mover advantage has to be gained
How long can we move forward with low cost labour based comparative
advantage?
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There is a need to increase R&D expenditure in export firms – it is true
that the overall R&D expenditure is low (0.11% of GDP) but what is
alarming is the private sector share in this is only 18%, where as in other
successful exporting nations private sector share is above 65%
South Korea's Hyundai and KIA are the most fuel efficient cars today;
Brazil's Emraer is one of the leading jet manufacturers and has partnership
with both Boeing and Airbus; Taiwan's Acer and Asus are now two leading
Notebook manufacturers in the world; South Korea's Samsung Galaxy
smart phones have a competitive edge over Apple i-phones and Samsung
will become the top home appliance maker by 2015, etc.View entire presentation