Foreign Investments

The Sri Lankan economy received $889 million USD worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2008 and is expecting to receive $1 billion USD. Services and Infrastructure accounts for 78% of total FDI, which includes construction, real estate, telecommunications, power, and information technology. Manufacturing accounts for 21% of FDI which includes textile and apparel, rubber, agro-products, electronics, non-metalic products, fabricated metal and garment accessories.Malaysia is the largest source of FDI, close to $150 million USD in 2008. Other major countries in descending order include:

These foreign investments strengthen the Sri Lankan economy encouraging the government to increase its military funding. The “No To Sri Lanka” campaign strives to reduce the governments economic force to immediately end hostilities against the Tamil people and move forward on an effective and lasting political settlement by getting consumers to endorse this campaign.

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