{"id":87225,"date":"2019-04-14T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87225"},"modified":"2019-04-14T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T17:19:43","slug":"gotabaya-rajapakse-a-visionary-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/14\/gotabaya-rajapakse-a-visionary-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"GOTABAYA RAJAPAKSE  A VISIONARY LEADER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Mr\nGotabaya Rajapakse has created his own political platform providing &nbsp;a\nnation friendly economic and socially cohesive vision to integrate all ethnic\ngroups of the island.&nbsp; He has clearly identified to distance himself from\nthe free-flow open market economy.&nbsp; Instead, he is committed to provide\nleadership to accelerate investing capacity of local entrepreneurs &nbsp;for\n&nbsp;all goods and services which can be locally manufactured, instead of\nimporting.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is in this context local manufacturers\nwill be provided further assistance by means of technological transfer from\nadvanced industrial nations, taking into consideration opportunity costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka is a rich island, with vast untapped economic resources.&nbsp; Projects\nsuch as Tyre, Steel, Engineering, Textile, Ceramics, Paper, Hardware, Mineral\nSands, Cement, Timber were commissioned to kick start the economy, which\nfilters to benefit directly and indirectly to the rest of the areas of\neconomy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLankan economy is stagnating &nbsp;or gradually moving backwards at the\nmoment.&nbsp; The taxation system is being changed in an ad-hoc manner, tax\nrevenue is declining and at the same time tax revenue is &nbsp;directed for\nconsumption instead of capital investment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No\nshort and medium term tax incentives are given to local entrepreneurs.&nbsp;\nThe financial institutions are reluctant to release long term loans to private\nsector, as local businessmen are unable to investing in modern technology to\nupgrade or replace existing plant and machinery. As a consequence their\nBusiness Plans fail to meet the required standards of Due diligence Tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\nlast four years, we have been pushed to those issues which further divided the\nnation instead of integrating.&nbsp; Our current inefficient rulers with no\npositive action plan were pampered by Groups and Nations thus successfully\nelevated ethnic issues above economic and social issues.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GR\nis the overwhelming future leader for Sri Lanka and Asia to change the\ndirection and overall the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Gotabaya Rajapakse has created his own political platform providing &nbsp;a nation friendly economic and socially cohesive vision to integrate all ethnic groups of the island.&nbsp; He has clearly identified to distance himself from the free-flow open market economy.&nbsp; Instead, he is committed to provide leadership to accelerate investing capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87225","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=87225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}