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Sri
Lanka State of the Economy 2001
Main theme: Competition, Policy and Regulation
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Table of Contents
- Policy Perspectives
- Economic Performance
- Introduction
- Output growth Q1-2000 : Q2-2001
- Fiscal outturn
- Interest rates and the exchange rate
- Inflation
- Balance of payments
- Capital markets
- International Environment
- Global trends in the pre-shock economy
- OECD economies
- Emerging economies and Russia
- The after-shock economy
- Implications for Sri Lanka of international developments
- Global outturn
- Preferential liberalization initiatives
- Sri Lanka’s future in the sea
- Competition policy and regulation
- Introduction
- Competition policy in the Sri Lankan context: a
developing country perspective
- The competition regime in Sri Lanka: a comparison
of the old and the new
- Competition policy in practice – the FTC
at work 1995-2000
- Limitations of the new legislation
- Limitations of the substantive law of the FTCA/CPA
- Institutional limitations
- Limitations specific of the CPA
- Conclusions
- Case Study 1: Privatization of Colombo gas company
and competition in the LPG sector
- Case Study II: TRIPS, competition and the pharmaceutical
industry
- Free float of the exchange rate
- Introduction
- Floating the rupee: the proximate causes
- How ‘free’ is the float?
- Policy implications of a floating regime
- Floating with an anchor: inflation targeting
- Between bilateralism and regionalism: Focus
on the Sri Lanka - Pakistan bilateral free trade agreement
- Introduction
- Profile of Sri Lanka-Pakistan trade
- Impact of a bilateral FTA
- Lessons from the Sri Lanka-India FTA – a
year after
- Conclusion
- Governance
- Introduction
- Overlap of institutions
- Effective public policy management
- The community-governance nexus
- Human resources
- Conclusion
- Crisis in the power sector
- Introduction
- Profile of electricity demand
- The twin crises – the capacity crisis and
the financial crisis
- Development of electric generation capacity
- Financial performance of CEB
- Addressing the capacity crisis
- Outlook for tariffs and rural electrification
- Electricity tariffs on the rise?
- Rural electrification jeopardized?
- Conclusion
- Aid and aid under-utilization
- Introduction
- Profile of aid in Sri Lanka
- Commitments of loan and grants
- Disbursements of loans and grants
- Aid utilization problem
- Factors limiting the utilization of aid
- Conclusion
- Prospects
- Diary of Events July 2000 – June 2000
- Appendix A: Macroeconomic Indicators
- Appendix B: Capital Market
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ISBN:
955-8708-17-8
Year of Publication: 2001
Price: US$ 15
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