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    Agenda Presented by the Bretton Woods Institutions and Food Security in South Asia
    (SAWTEE, 2001) Kelegama, Saman
    Institutions like FAO focus mainly on global food security while various regional blocs focus on their regional food security. The Bretton Woods institutions focus on national food security, but the focus is mostly at the macro-level. The approach of Bretton Woods institutions in addressing the food security issues at the macro level is based very much on trade policy and finding market-based solutions in the rural economies. Little importance is given to the non-level playing field that exists in global agricultural trade and it is assumed that the comparative advantage doctrine determined by trade policy can ensure food security at the household level if other domestic distortions are removed. This chapter examines this line of argument in more detail.
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    An Overview of Sri Lanka's Trading Regime at the Regional, Bilateral and Multilateral Levels
    (Sri Lanka Economic Association, 2006, 2006) Kelegama, Saman
    Sri Lanka’s trade policy for global integration has four tracks – unilateral, bilateral, regional and multilateral. This chapter provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka’s trade scenarios from the perspective of these tracks of trade liberalisation.
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    Changing face: The Trials and Fortunes of Regional Cooperation in South Asia
    (Kathmandu: SAWTEE and SACEPS, 2012) Kelegama, Saman
    As set out in the organization’s charter, the primary objective of SAARC is to utilize cooperation among its member states as a springboard for achieving cohesive development in the economic, cultural and socio-political lives of their citizens. Nevertheless, despite enormous potential for facilitating such development in a region populated by over 40 percent of the world’s poor, SAARC’s effectiveness has been limited and its successes far too few. In acknowledgement of such failings, a Group of Eminent Persons (GEP) Report was commissioned by the organization for consideration at its 1998 summit in Colombo. The Report points to SAARC’s inadequate role in fostering regional cooperation, and then goes on to articulate a vision of change, detailing the steps that must be taken in order to transform the organization into the fulcrum of a truly integrated and self-sustaining regional society. This article considers the obstacles, which, until now, have hindered SAARC from achieving such a transformation. It then discusses a number of new opportunities, which, if appropriately exploited, could provide a means for SAARC to close the gap between the GEP vision of an effective and productive organization for regional cooperation, and its far less desirable reality.
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    China as a Balancer in South Asia: An Economic Perspective with Special Reference to Sri Lanka
    (Stanford University Press, 2016, 2016) Kelegama, Saman
    This chapter focuses on how the smaller South Asian countries view economic issues related to China's rise by using Sri Lanka as a case study.
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    Economic Costs of Conflict in Sri Lanka
    (World Peace Foundation and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Brookings Institution Press, 1999) Kelegama, Saman
    'Sri Lanka’s long civil war has exacted an enormous economic cost in terms of lost productivity, lost investment and misallocated resources, resulting in a lower standard of living than would have been possible in a peacetime setting. Although ethnic conflict had taken place for several years, it became a burden on the economy only after 1983, when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commenced a guerrilla war against the state. For convenience of reference it is called the Ealam War (I, II and III). Eelam War I started in 1983 and continued until 1987 when the Indian Peace Keeping Force established itself in commanding positions in the north and the east. With the collapse of peace talks initiated in early 1990, Eelam War II started in June 1990 and continued until December 1994. Eelam War Ill, which commenced in mid-April 1995, continues to date. This chapter analyzes the economic aspects of the war, with special reference to Eelam wars I and II.
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    Food Security in Sri Lanka
    (Hector Kobbekaduwa Trust, 2000) Kelegama, Saman
    The approach to food security in Sri Lanka and the changing nature of policy are discussed in this book chapter. It does not intend to discuss food security from a dietary or nutritional perspective but from a more overall macro and micro economic perspective.
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    Garment Industry in Sri Lanka
    (South Asia Multidisciplinary Advisory Team, ILO, 2002) Kelegama, Saman; Eparachchi, Roshan
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    Globalization: A South Asian Perspective
    (SAWTEE, 2000) Kelegama, Saman
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    How to Advance SAFTA
    (South Asia Centre for Policy Studies, Centre for Policy Dialogue and University Press, 2004) Kelegama, Saman
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    Managing the Food Price Inflation in Sri Lanka
    (Siripa Publishers, 2010) Kelegama, Saman
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    Managing the Sri Lankan Economy at a Time of Terrorism and War
    (Shipra Publications, 2003) Kelegama, Saman
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    Market Reform, Diversification, and Food Security in Sri Lanka
    (Haworth Press, 2005) Kelegama, Saman; Babu, Suresh Chandra
    The major objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of the issues and challenges facing Sri Lankan policy makers in their efforts to introduce market reforms, liberalize external trade and diversify the agricultural production base.
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    Migration and Economic Remittances: Impact on Development
    (Routledge, 2016) Kelegama, Saman; Weeraratne, Bilesha
    This chapter presents an overview of Migration and Development (M&D) from the point of remittances. It initially outlines the theoretical developments in economics that deal with this nexus in ‘Theories on M&D’. In ‘Development impact of M&R authors focus on the development aspects of migration and remittances (M&R) followed by a discussion on mainstreaming migration in to development in ‘Mainstreaming migration for development’. The chapter is concluded with discussion about the future of migration, economic remittances and development in ‘Future of migration and economic remittances’.
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    Overview
    (Centad, 2007, 2006) Kelegama, Saman; Chimni, B.S.; Das, B.L.; Rahman, Mustafizur
    Provides an overview of each chapter in the volume.
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    Political Economy of Growth and Reforms in South Asia
    (Oxford University Press, 2003) Kelegama, Saman; Parikh, Kirit S.
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    Privatization in Sri Lanka: An Overview
    (Routledge, 1997) Kelegama, Saman
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    Redefining the Global Partnership for Development
    (Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals, 2014, 2014) Kelegama, Saman
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    Repositioning SAFTA in the Regionalism Debate
    (M.E. Sharpe, 2007) Kelegama, Saman; Adhikari, Ratnakar
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    SAPTA and its Future
    (Sage, 1999) Kelegama, Saman
    The chapter first gives the background to SAPTA and then examines the impediments to the progress of SAPTA and the validity of the Preferential Trade assumption for South Asia. It also examines the international experience with preferential trading agreements. Finally chapter looks at policy options for more effective economic cooperation among SAARC countries.
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    South Asia and Other Regional Economic Groupings
    (Konark, 2001) Kelegama, Saman
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