Big fish, small growth

Source:AFP Published: 2013-9-15 22:58:01

A Sri Lankan vendor sells fish at his stall in Wattala, Sri Lanka on Saturday. After crushing Tamil rebels four years ago Sri Lanka expected to become South Asia's tiger economy, but exuberance has given way to mediocre growth and fears of more trouble ahead. Sri Lanka's GDP grew 6.8 percent in the second quarter of 2013, according to Sri Lanka's Census and Statistics Department on Friday. Photo: AFP

A Sri Lankan vendor sells fish at his stall in Wattala, Sri Lanka on Saturday. After crushing Tamil rebels four years ago Sri Lanka expected to become South Asia's tiger economy, but exuberance has given way to mediocre growth and fears of more trouble ahead. Sri Lanka's GDP grew 6.8 percent in the second quarter of 2013, according to Sri Lanka's Census and Statistics Department on Friday. Photo: AFP



 

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