IMF Staff Country Reports

Sri Lanka: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

March 16, 2004

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Summary

This paper explores how monetary policy affects other macroeconomic variables, mainly output and inflation. First, it provides an overview of the framework for implementing monetary policy and then discusses the transmission mechanism itself. In this study, the following statistical data are listed in detail: GDP and expenditure components, savings, investment, current account, consumption and prices of petroleum and electricity, price indicators, employment by economic sectors, monetary survey, selected interest rates, balance of payments, exports and imports by commodity, direction of trade, services and income.

Subject: Corporate income tax, Credit, Financial services, Monetary base, Money, Repo rates, Tax holidays, Tax incentives, Taxes

Keywords: Accelerated depreciation, Central bank, Corporate income tax, CR, Credit, Exchange rate, ISCR, Middle East, Private sector, Repo rate, Repo rates, Reverse repo, Tax holidays, Tax incentives, Transmission mechanism

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    61

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2004/069

  • Stock No:

    1LKAEA0022004

  • ISBN:

    9781451823493

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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