Sri Lanka: Recent Economic Developments

September 5, 1998

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Sri Lanka: Recent Economic Developments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews economic developments in Sri Lanka during 1996–98. After slowing to 4 percent in 1996, economic growth recovered to 6½ percent in 1997. The slowdown in 1996 had been mainly owing to a severe drought that affected the agricultural sector and disrupted the power supply. The recovery in 1997 was strongest in agriculture and manufacturing, supplemented by continued good performance in the services sector, including a rebound in tourism. In addition, significant accomplishments were achieved in economic restructuring, including several successful privatizations and an initial step toward fiscal adjustment.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Loans, Public sector, Treasury bills and bonds

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Banking system, Broad money, Capital adequacy ratio, Commercial banks, CR, Debt management, East Asia, Economic growth, Exchange rate, Foreign banks, Foreign currency, ISCR, Loans, Private sector, Public sector, South Asia

Publication Details

Pages:

121
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1998/095
Stock No:

1LKAEA0011998
ISBN:

9781451823387
ISSN:

1934-7685

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