Ricardo Hausmann, Growth Lab Sri Lanka project in Sunday Observer

Sri Lanka has the potential to accelerate its economic growth by creating access to know-how through liberalised immigration policies, opines a renowned expert on development economics.

Addressing a recent lecture on the topic of ‘Accessing know-how for development’, Director of Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Prof. Ricardo Hausmann says the low addition of new products to the island’s export basket in the last two decades was primarily due to the barriers in...