Sri Lanka

Like all countries, Sri Lanka is recovering from the particular economic challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but unlike many it possesses huge strategic potential to become one of the main hubs for international investors in South Asia and beyond. With a thriving tourism and hospitality industry that contributes around half a million jobs, as […]

Becoming the next economic hub of South Asia

“Along with challenges come opportunities”, assures Saroja Sirisena, Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom. And though it can be argued that this is a known fact, it has never seem so poignant as it does now in our post-pandemic world. Like all countries, Sri Lanka is recovering from the particular economic challenges posed […]

Predictions for Emerging & Frontier markets Post CV-19

The consensus among investors is that Covid-19 will overwhelm frontier emerging markets, causing immense economic fallout from a collapse in both domestic and external demand. However I, without meaning to sound too Pollyannaish I think another scenario is more likely: that such markets will outperform. MSCI’s Frontier Emerging Markets index spans large companies across 34 […]