Economic Policy in Sri Lanka: Issues and DebatesSaman Kelegama, Gamani Corea The essays in this volume, written by well-known economists and social scientists, shed light on the intense national debates that accompanied the making of policy decisions in Sri Lanka. Studying the country's economy under six main headings: the ideology and strategy of economic development; macro-economic policy; the development of agriculture, industry and technology; employment and labour; institutional issues and governance; and social welfare, the book presents a comprehensive picture of contemporary Sri Lanka's economy. |
Contents
List of Tables and Figures | 11 |
PART IDevelopment Strategy and Ideology | 20 |
12 | 27 |
Tables | 40 |
1 | 51 |
The Influence of Development Ideology in Macroeconomic | 54 |
The Lessons of National Planning | 71 |
19602000 | 97 |
12 | 271 |
An Exploratory Study | 273 |
11 | 277 |
2 | 279 |
Migration and Brain Drain | 300 |
12 | 308 |
19 | 315 |
14 | 326 |
Figures | 107 |
The Importance of the Public Sector in Economic | 109 |
45 | 115 |
1 | 126 |
3 | 134 |
Current Fiscal Policy | 143 |
Institutional Issues | 153 |
1 | 157 |
7 | 172 |
11A Growth in Government Domestic Debt by Maturity | 175 |
Exchange Rate | 177 |
PART IIIAgriculture Industry and Technology Development | 193 |
Industrial Policy | 213 |
Key Issues in Productivity 237 337 | 237 |
1 | 244 |
Labour Productivity Growth and Employment Generation | 255 |
1 | 256 |
Sri Lanka Manufacturing in Productivity | 261 |
སུ ྲ ཏུསྶུཌཱུསྶུཌྜ ཎྜ ཞྲི ནྲྀ ཏྲྰཾཏྠུཊྚ ྤཝཟླ | 331 |
Approved Cadre | 332 |
Economic Liberalization and Institutional Reform | 337 |
Privatization and Regulation | 363 |
Banking Sector Reform | 379 |
The Colonial Lineages of the Welfare State | 403 |
Shares of Capital and Recurrent Education | 415 |
Overview of the Health Sector | 426 |
1 | 441 |
Conceptual Foundations | 445 |
1 | 447 |
5 | 454 |
Poverty Alleviation | 467 |
Biographical Sketch of Gamani Corea 497 08880 | 497 |
507 | |
514 | |
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