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Massive World Bank aid pledge for Lanka

by Chandani Jayatilleke

As the day breaks, a farmer from a village in Sri Lanka goes to the Internet kiosk in his village. He is intelligent enough to browse through the Internet and find out the prices of goods in different towns and decide for himself where to sell his goods to gain a maximum profit. "This is the kind of development we anticipate to see in Sri Lanka," Peter Harrold, Country Director for Sri Lanka, World Bank, told the Daily News in an interview.
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