SriLanka, Nov. 13 -- Sri Lanka's pitch to investors comes with a timetable where within two months, the government expects to seek proposals for a privately backed logistics centre at the Port of Colombo. In early 2027, it plans to take a public-private partnership law to parliament.

Both will offer early tests of whether President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's third budget can turn economic stability into projects businesses are prepared to finance.

Presenting the Budget to parliament yesterday, Dissanayake traced a progression from stabilising the economy in his first budget to giving greater weight to production, investment and institutional reform in his second. The third, he said, would put those reforms into effect.

"The main object...