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Table of Contents
- Policy Perspectives
- Economic Performance
- Introduction
- Output Growth
- Government Finances
- Savings and Investment
- Interest Rates and Inflation
- Unemployment
- Balance of Payments
- Outlook
- International Economics Environment
- Overview
- Outlook of OECD Economies
- Emerging Economies
- World Trade
- Implications of Developments in the External Environment
for Sri Lanka
- Conclusion
- Plantation Restructuring: New Challenges
- Introduction
- Implications of Liberalizing Tea Imports on the
Tea Sector
- Overview
- The Performance of the Tea Sector in 1999 and
Future Prospects
- The Stakeholder Arguments
- Conclusion
- The Rubber Sector: Recent Trends, Current Issues
and Future Prospects
- Introduction
- Production Trends
- Current Issues
- Strategies for Achieving Competitiveness
- Conclusion
- Social Welfare, Labour and Productivity in the
Plantations Sector
- Introduction
- Determinants and Trends in Labour Supply and
Productivity
- Development of Social Welfare in the Estate Sector
- Social Welfare in the Estate Sector after Privatization
- Conclusion
- Emerging Issues in the Economic Development
Process
- Introduction
- The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture and
its Implications for Sri Lanka
- Introduction
- Overview of the Sri Lankan Agriculture Sector
- Domestic Intervention in the Agriculture Sector
- Trade Policies in Agriculture
- Impact of the AOA on Sri Lanka
- The Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary
Standards
- Costs and Benefits Arising from the Implementation
of the AOA
- Sri Lanka and the WTO 2000 Negotiations
- Conclusion
- WTO and Textile and Garment Sector: Implications
for Sri Lanka
- Introduction
- Rationale for the Agreement on Textile and
Clothing (ATC)
- Performance of the Garment Sector in Sri Lanka
- Threats to Sri Lanka’s Garment Industry
- The Challenges Leading up to 2005
- Conclusion
- Sri Lanka’s Health Care System: Achievements,
Problems and Challenges
- Introduction
- The Current System and its Performance
- Achievements and Problems
- Problems and Challenges
- Conclusion
- Issues on Governance
- Introduction
- Public Policy Management
- Institutional Arrangements
- Ineffective Governance
- A Reform Agenda
- Poverty Alleviation Interventions: Cooperation
between State and Civil Society Institutions
- Introduction
- Pressures to Cooperate
- Conclusion
- Prospects
- Diary of Events
- Tables of Economic Indicators
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