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Item Sri Lanka economic summit 2007: Spreading the wings of development(2007-07)The Sri Lanka economic summit 2007 that concluded recently was organized in partnership with the Board of investment and the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) under the guidance of the CCC convention committee, Co-Chairman, Prof. Lakshman Watawala. This years summit allowed key policy makers of the country to join top business leaders to interact on the basis of a structured program, in presenting Sri Lanka as a destination for foreign investment and provide a wonderful networking experience where participants were challenged to look at current and future issues affecting their respective industry as well as global business.Item The state and development: Sri Lanka in Neo-liberal policy regime(2006-05) Lakshman, W.DItem Sri Lanka's economic development during twenty-five years of independence(1975-12) Snodgrass, Donald RItem Sri Lanka's foreign policy change and continuity(1974-12) Wilson, A. JeyaratnamItem Youth employment challenges in Sri Lanka(2008-08)Item Transitioning trends(2006-12)Item Vietnam special economic bulletin 2012(Embassy of the socialist republic of Vietnam in Sri lanka, 2012)Item Social infrasture and inclusive growth(2013) Kumarasiri, Mansi; Fernando, PriyanthiItem The state and the voluntary sector(1993-10) Clark, JohnIn some countries, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are major contributors to development processes. This is not uniform, however. in a number of countries NGOs are weak or play more of an oppositional rather than operational role and governments are highly suspicious of them. A number of factors influence the development impact of NGOs; many of which are determined by the relationship between the NGO sector and the state.Item Social development is economic development(1993-03) Birdsall, NancySocial development, in addition to improving human welfare directly, is an excellent investment in terms of its contribution to economic growth. This is the hard nosed economic fact. Even a narrow interest in growth for growth's sake dictates putting your money into social development programs.Item Social security isues and elements of reform(1994-05) Nguyen, Nguyen XThis paper documents the main problems many social security are currently facing, as well as various elements for their reform suggested in the literature. The current problems are classified into inadequate and inequitable protection, economic and political environments, demographic patterns, labor patterns, administration, other inefficiencies, financial management, and benefits inflation. The paper suggest various constraints and general principles of reform; and proposes a menu of elements of reform that includes fostering private sector and non-government organizations; reducing health care costs, administrative costs, benefit costs; enhancing coverage and financing (Financing short-term and long-term benefits); and improving portfolio managemmentItem Standstills and an international bankruptcy court(2002-10) Eaton, JonathanRecent proposals call for the establishment of an international bankruptcy court that would adjudicate debt disputes between sovereign debtors and their creditors. One component of the operation of such an institution would be the declaration, under circumstances deemed appropriate, of a standstill preventing lenders from forcing payment of debt.Such a proposal would bring the enforcement and information aggregation powers of a judicial body to international capital markets. A benefit would be the greater transparency, power, and legitimacy of such an institution and its procedures relative to the the national judicial systems now charged with overseeing sovereign debt problems. But there is also a danger that such an institution could exacerbate problems between debtors and creditors. By reducing creditors capacity to extract repayment such an institution could ultimately worsen the credit terms available to sovereigns. Another problem, also present in the current system, is that public funds might be used to bailout both private creditors and debtors. Tow suggestions for mitigating such problems are (i) escrow accounts that would be transferred from debtor to creditor in the event of a standstill and (ii) an experience-rated tax to finance official lendingItem When does capital account liberalization help more than it hurts?(2001-08) Arteta, Carlos; Eichengreen, Barry; Wyplosz, CharlesIn this paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the relationship is estimated. the evidence that the effects of capital account liberalization are stronger in high-income countries is similarly fragile. There is some evidence that the positive growth effects of liberalization are stronger in countries with strong institutions, as measured by standard indicators of the rule of law, but only weak evidence that the benefits grow with a country's financial depth and development. We find more evidence of a correlation between capital account liberalization and growth when we allow the effect to vary with other dimensions of openness. There are two interpretations of this finding, one in terms of the sequencing of trade and financial liberalization, the other in terms of the need to eliminate major macroeconomic imbalances before opening the capital account. By and large our results supports the second interpretation.Item Time-series econometrics(1997) Karunaratne, Neil dias