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Sri Lanka needs to increase high tech exports to shrink widening trade gap
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Sri Lanka needs to increase high tech exports to shrink widening trade gap

Sri Lanka exports only one percent of high tech products and to address the widening trade gap the country will…

byFaraz Shauketaly20/08/2018

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