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Item Markets and long term economic growth in South Asia, 1950-97 an interpretation(1950) Tendulkar, Suresh D; Sen, BinayakIn the context of the theme, markets and economic growth, this paper seeks to examine the role of output as well as factor markets in shaping the pace as well as composition of economic growth in the major South Asian economies. In particular, we seek to explain the slow pace of economic growth in these economies since 1950s using Simon Kuznets-douglass North institutional approach to economic growth. This approach emphasizes the evolutionary path dependent character of the growth process focusing on the processes and mechanisms of adjustment and their outcomes for economic growth. Specifically, we argue that product-market distortions emerging from restrictive trade and exchange rate policies under centrally initiated and public sector-oriented industrialization constituted the major causal factor behind the slow pace of growth of South Asian economies.Item The balance of payments: problems and pollcies outline note(1959) Savundranayagam, TItem The economy of ceylon trends and prospects(1971-11-10) Perera, N.M DrItem Developmental benefits accruing to the ceylon Tamil community(1973)Tow approaches are in principle available to assess the benefits being derived by the Ceylon Tamil Community as a result of the recent developmental policies.The first of these would be to assess those socio-economic indices that reflect the general development of the country.Item The economy of Sri Lanka 1948-73(1974-12) Gunasekara, H.MItem Economic growth and redistributive justice as policy goals: A study of the recent expereience of Sri Lanka(1975-01) Lakshman, W.DSince political independence governments of different shades of political opinion in Sri Lanka have sought to achieve a number of different policy objectives in their management of the country's economic affairs. In very broad terns these objectives can be grouped under the following headings: (I) economic growth; (2) redistributive or what is more commonly known as social welfare (3) employment creation, and (4) internal and external economic stability.Item Towards a socialist Sri Lanka(Center for society and religion, 1977-01)Item Economic intergration among developing countries(1978-09) Balassa, Bela; Stoutjesdijk, ArdyIn the early postwar period, economic integration among developing countries was considered primarily as a way of extending the policy of import substitution on a regional scale. This approach is subject to serious limitations since even regional markets will often not permit the establishment of efficient-size firms, much less competition among several such firms. Thus regional integration oriented towards import substitution may lead to the establishment of ineffcient plants and of an inefficient industrial structure thereby postponing the time and increasing the difficulties of a reorientation of policies once the limits of import substitution have been reached.Item Country Analysis(1980)Item Problems of developing countries in the 1990s: Volume II country studies(1980) McCarthy, Desmond FItem A short-term forecasting model for the Sri Lanka economy(1980-12) Gafoor, A.L.M Abdul; Kooyman, M.AA short-term econometric forecasting model has been constructed for Sri Lanka, Perhaps this is the first of its kind. It covers the main macro-economic magnitudes reported in the National Accounts of Sri Lanka, consumer and general price indices and money supply . It is a simultaneous equation model consisting of eight stochastic and two definitional equation in eleven predetermined and ten endogenous variables. The model has been estimated using two stage least squares method on relative first difference of the variables over the period 1963-77. Two forecasts and six back-casts have been have been made. Comparisons with released values show the model to be fairly accurate and stable. Theil's inequality coefficients have been computed and they seem to support this claim.Item Economic memorandum on Sri Lanka(1981-09)Sri Lanka's economy stagnated during the period 1970-1977, but has improved significantly since 1977 when a new Government took office. The previous Government had been committed to some costly social welfare programs and to an expansion of state control over economic activity. It had imposed price controls and rationing and restrictions on private ownership of land property.Item Center for society and religion(1982-09)