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A long-term development policy framework for Sri Lanka from Rienzie Wijetilleke Source:Dailymirror At a gathering of business professionals at a CIMA Sri Lanka National Conference in 2006, Rienzie Wijetilleke (former Managing Director and Chief Executive at Hatton National Bank) presented a policy framework that would bring in his ideal of a Public-Private Partnership into a national development strategy for Sri Lanka, that is very much applicable today. His fellow speakers included Dr. Sarath Amunugama who spoke from the political perspective, MP Kabir Hashim from an economic perspective, banker Aravinda Perera focusing on the development finance perspective, and trade union activist Leslie Devendra bringing in the perspectives of the trade unions.  Rienzie’s candid options of the barricades the nation faces in terms of business growth, especially the inconsistency in policy, which he called ‘killing the private sector,’ and the need for decentralisation were two cases in point. He was also keen ...