Macroeconomic policies, crises, and growth in Sri Lanka, 1969-90

Athukorala, Prema‐chandra; Jayasuriya, Sisira

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“…In the late 1970s, there had been a major breakthrough in growth trend in the country, due to the economy moving from a 'hard' phase of import substitution in a highly controlled regime to a liberalized economy. By the mid-1970s, the Sri Lankan economy was one of the most inward-oriented and regulated outside the communist bloc, characterized by stringent trade and exchange controls and pervasive state interventions in all areas of economic activity (Athukorala & Jayasuriya, 1994;Athukorala & Rajapatirana 2000;Dunham & Kelegama, 1997;More, 1997;Panagariya, 2003;Rajapatirana, 1989;Snodgrass, 1998).…”

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Do Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Enjoy Export-Led Growth? A Comparison of Two Small South Asian Economies

Shafiullah

Ravinthirakumaran

2016

South Asia Economic Journal

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The export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis suggests that there is a strong positive linear relationship between a country's exports and economic growth. For many years, theoretical and empirical studies have examined the causal relationship between exports and economic growth and found that this relationship is one of interdependence rather than of unilateral causation. The purpose of this article is to empirically re-examine the ELG hypothesis in the context of two small South Asian countries: Bangladesh for the period of 1980-2011 and Sri Lanka for the period of 1984-2011. Using a model that controls for a host of domestic and international factors, this article tests the ELG hypothesis by employing the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds test for cointegration and the Granger causality tests. The empirical results confirm the validity of the ELG hypothesis for both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. JEL: C32, F20, F41, O11

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Section: Sri Lankamentioning

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Do Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Enjoy Export-Led Growth? A Comparison of Two Small South Asian Economies

Shafiullah

Ravinthirakumaran

2016

South Asia Economic Journal

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“…According to Athukorala and Jayasuriya (1994) (1), individual"s willingness to take financial risk is an important factor in investment. Some are more security motivated than others.…”

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Customer Preferences for Banking Products between Private and Public Sector Banks in Chennai City

Kumar¹

2017

Int.J.Curr.Res.Aca.Rev.

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Article InfoThe reform process initiated in the banking sector in the country has brought in the New Age private banks, which are quite aggressive in their operation. They are now playing a crucial role in attracting deposits from the customers, providing advances to various sections of society and thereby giving a tough competition to the public sector banks (PSBs) not only in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality. The private sector banks have brought in many new products like credit cards, debit cards. ATMs, internet banking etc. The PSBs have been forced to extend these facilities, which they are struggling to do, since decision making takes time. Private sector banks have also extending facilities like share trading, commodity trading, saving and current accounts and term deposits with new features. This has led to the situation, where the customers now opine that the private sector banks are aggressive and more tech savvy in their operations in attracting customers and in providing more and newer products to them, while the PSBs are less efficient and not quite forthcoming in extending new facilities to their customers. However, there is also a general opinion that the public sector banks are more secured compared to the private sector banks, since the former are backed directly by the Government, which provides a lot of satisfaction to their customers. The PSBs score over the private sector banks on one count, while the later score over the former on another count. This calls for a close scrutiny from the view point of customers regarding their preferences for the saving and investment products provided by the banks that belong to the two sectors with the help of primary data, which is the basic thrust of the present study.

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“…Then, the market-oriented United National Party (UNP) undertook significant liberalization of a previously protectionist trade policy, abolished a dual exchange rate regime, dismantled many exchange controls, and devalued the rupee. Other measures were also taken to promote exports (Rajapatirana, 1988;Cuthbertson and Athukorala, 1991;Athukorala and Jayasuriya, 1994).…”

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Can Trade Liberalization Have Environmental Benefits in Developing Country Agriculture? A Sri Lankan Case Study

Bandara

Coxhead

1999

Journal of Policy Modeling

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In an economy dominated by agriculture, trade policy reforms and associated changes may induce substantial reallocation of land between more and less erosive uses. However, the direction and magnitude of such a shift is difficult to predict due to the presence of existing policy distortions and of world market power in agricultural exports; moreover, changes occurring within agriculture may have economy-wide welfare effects through markets for factors and commodities. We use an applied general equilibrium model to evaluate and quantify the likely impacts of an across-the-board tariff reduction in Sri Lanka. In a related analysis, we examine the economic and environmental implications of technical progress in an important export sector, tea. We find that both types of change increase the demand for land in tea, a relatively less erosive sector, and thus have environmental as well as economic benefits for the Sri Lankan economy.

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Macroeconomic policies, crises, and growth in Sri Lanka, 1969-90

Cited by 73 publications

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Do Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Enjoy Export-Led Growth? A Comparison of Two Small South Asian Economies

Do Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Enjoy Export-Led Growth? A Comparison of Two Small South Asian Economies

Customer Preferences for Banking Products between Private and Public Sector Banks in Chennai City

Can Trade Liberalization Have Environmental Benefits in Developing Country Agriculture? A Sri Lankan Case Study

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