Saegis International Forum of Intellectuals and Experts

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Saegis campus recently launched an innovative program, titled  “Saegis International Forum of Intellectuals and Experts (SIFIE)” will be held on 11 February 2016 at 5.30 p.m. at its auditorium at 135, S.De.S. Jayasinghe Mawatha,Kohuwala, Nugegoda

The inaugural lecture in SIFIE will be delivered by Professor jPremachandra Athukorala  on “Sri Lanka’s Post-Conflict Development Challenge: Learning from the Past.”

It will focus on the issue of economic reforms for sustainable growth in Sri Lanka during the post-conflict period against the backdrop of Sri Lanka’s post-independence development experience and the current global economic outlook

Premachandra Athukorala is Professor of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. 

His publications include Trade Policy Issues in Asian Development (Rutledge, 1998), Structural Adjustment and Labour Migration in East Asia (Oxford University Press 1999). Liberalization and Industrial Adjustment: Sri Lanka in International Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2000), Saving, Investment and Growth in India (Oxford University Press, 2002), Multinational Enterprises in Asian Development (Edward Elgar, 2007), five other books, four edited volumes, and numerous contributions to professional journals and multi-authored volumes.  

 

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