CCC Seminar on 'How Competitive is Sri Lanka for Business?'

The latest issue of The Global Competitiveness Report, published by the World Economic Forum, will be released on the 31st of October.

In assessing the competitiveness of countries, this report includes The Global Competitiveness Index featuring the 12 pillars of competitiveness, The Business Competitiveness Index, detailed country profiles and data tables covering more than 100 social and economic indicators. This year record 131 economies worldwide were polled.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce is organising a seminar on "How Competitive is Sri Lanka for Business". The seminar is scheduled for the 1 November at 3.45 p.m. at the Ground Floor Auditorium of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Colombo 02.

The Global Competitiveness Report is widely used by investors and policy makers all around the world. The report assesses the Competitiveness of countries based on hard data and an opinion survey carried out among nearly 11,500 business executives worldwide.

Business competitiveness is dependent on a host of factors such as institutions, infrastructure, macro economic performance, education, technology, market efficiency, innovation and business sophistication. Being at the forefront of Global Competitiveness is a combined effort of both the Government and the private sector.

The objective of the seminar is to enlighten the business community on the status of Sri Lanka on Her competitiveness ranking and the improvements that have taken place and are necessary compared to the other countries.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will make a presentation on 'How competitive is Sri Lanka for Business?', which will be a review of the results of the latest report, followed by a panel discussion. Panellists at the discussion include; Dr. Saman Kelegama, Executive Director, Institute of Policy Studies, Dr. Nihal Samarappuli, Executive Director-Research, Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, John Varley, Chief of Party, The Competitiveness Program, Sunil Wijesinha, Chairman and MD, Dankotuwa Porcelain Ltd., and Indrajith Aponso, Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo.