{"id":101346,"date":"2020-04-20T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101346"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T22:32:29","slug":"covid-19-outbreak-a-good-economic-opportunity-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/20\/covid-19-outbreak-a-good-economic-opportunity-president\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 outbreak a good economic opportunity &#8211; President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 outbreak is a good economic opportunity for the country, says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned this at a special discussion held with Chief Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga this evening (20), on the effects of COVID-19 outbreak in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0dc0\u0ddb\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dba\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dca \u0dbb\u0da7\u0da7 \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0db6\u0dbd\u0db4\u0dd1\u0db8 \u0d9c\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0da2\u0db1\u0dcf\u0db0\u0dd2\u0db4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dcf \u0db4\u0dd0\u0dc0\u0dd0\u0dad\u0dca\u0dc0\u0dd6 \u0dc0\u0dd2\u0dc1\u0dda\u0dc2 \u0dc3\u0dcf\u0d9a\u0da0\u0dca\u0da1\u0dcf\u0dc0...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0izPcdbGLxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the halt of the industries that generate foreign exchange, provide employment opportunities,&nbsp; open self-employment and SME opportunities \u2013 such as tourism and apparel industries \u2013,industries that are linked with importation, or deal with foreign investment have seen a major setback with the virus outbreak, the President pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this is a great opportunity to change Sri Lanka\u2019s economic system and move towards a more local economic plan, said President Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a long time, we have imported things that we could manufacture within the country. Due to cheaper imported goods, the local manufacturers, industries got shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing out that ways to increase the income of farmers have always been a topic of interest, the President said that a good opportunity has presented itself to develop this sector with the use of new technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must change the local economy, the complete economic model\u201d, said President Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The COVID-19 outbreak is a good economic opportunity for the country, says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He mentioned this at a special discussion held with Chief Advisor to the President Lalith Weeratunga this evening (20), on the effects of COVID-19 outbreak in the country. With the halt of the industries that generate foreign exchange, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,159,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-gotabaya-rajapaksa","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}