Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, whose preferred title is “Opportunity in Trump’s Tariff Shock: Diversify Products, Markets, and Industrialize”
Real and staged crises present opportunities to reorient, innovate and think outside the box. Trump’s tariff ‘shock’ presents Sri Lanka’s business sector and national policy makers with an opportunity for short, intermediate and long term economic and industrial policy shifts out of the current neocolonial, services heavy, economic model.
At this time, the focus of discussion should be on Development of New Products and New Markets by businesses and entrepreneurs, in partnership with state agencies like the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), in order to grow the economy out of the Eurobond- USD debt trap and International Monetary Fund bailout business.
