Sri Lanka: Selected Issues

November 4, 1997

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Sri Lanka: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka provides background information on economic developments and on selected policy issues facing Sri Lanka. The main economic developments in 1996 and the first quarter of 1997 are discussed. The paper highlights that in 1996, a severe drought, power shortages, and an escalation in the military conflict contributed to a sharp deterioration in the economic situation. With the end of the drought and power shortages, and a rise in investor confidence, macroeconomic conditions in 1997 were more favorable.

Subject: Demand for money, Exports, Financial institutions, International trade, Monetary base, Money, Tariffs, Taxes, Treasury bills and bonds

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Comparator country, Country authorities, CR, Demand for money, East Asia, Export, Exports, Further liberalization, Import, ISCR, Liberalization, Monetary base, Policy strategy, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Strides Sri Lanka, Tariffs, Treasury bills and bonds

Publication Details

Pages:

180
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/095
Stock No:

1LKAEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451823370
ISSN:

1934-7685

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