The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma
Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma stated that building the promised production economy requires coordinated investment from the Government, private sector, foreign investors, and domestic sources. He argued that stronger transparency and governance processes would help reduce the country’s risk premiums, citing the Central Bank’s recent announcement that rates had fallen further as evidence of improvement.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Sir, I will take just 30 seconds.
¶ 02 The production economy that we promised to the people requires investment by the Government and the private sector, investments coming both from overseas and from Sri Lanka, and would be achieved through collective efforts of everyone. Therefore, our view is that by putting these processes in place, bringing in the level of transparency required and establishing and practising governance as a country, we would be able to bring down our premiums. The testimony to that is, yesterday, the Central Bank announced the rates again and they have come down by another few points, which is good news.
¶ 03 Sir, I thank you very much.
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- Hansard, Friday, 23 May 2025 ·No. 1750228312097834 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Harshana Suriyapperuma. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 23 May 2025. No. 1750228312097834. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/23909