Sri Lanka As Emerging Wonder Of Asia: Suitable Ground Conditions To Realise The Goal Are A Must

By W.A. Wijewardena -July 3, 2012

Dr. W.A. Wijewardena

Sri Lanka’s new development tagline

Sri Lanka’s current development tagline has been to make it “The Emerging Wonder of Asia” as originally enunciated in Mahinda Chinthana: Vision for the Future and reaffirmed in both the Development Policy Framework of the Government issued in 2010 and the Annual Report of the Ministry of Finance and Planning for 2011 released in 2012.

To have a development tagline of this nature to mobilise the people for a common development cause is not uncommon in history. Immediately after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the new Czar of Russia, had his “Commanding Heights” to the Proletariat in the New Economic Policy designed to take Russia out of deep depression. Similarly, during the height of the Great Depression of 1930s, the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a “New Deal” under which the government attempted to finance the country out of depression through mega infrastructure projects. Such development taglines create a team-spirit among people, make everyone a development partner and provide the leaders of countries with necessary moral ground for action.

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