Exports’ dillemma: complacence is the worst enemy

A headline news item in the Daily FT of 22 March 2011 (available at: http://www.ft.lk/2011/03/22/exports%E2%80%99-dilemma/) reported that Parliamentarian, Harsha de Silva, has drawn the attention of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at a meeting of the Consultative Committee on Finance, to the declining share of Sri Lanka’s exports as a percentage of the country’s total output or Gross Domestic Product during the last decade.