Sri Lanka: Selected Issues

December 3, 2007

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Sri Lanka: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed December 28, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka underlies the dynamics of growth and external competitiveness. The slowdown in the contribution of sectors that are labor intensive, together with faster growth in sectors that are capital intensive and have higher productivity levels, resulted in total factor productivity (TFP) as the main contributor to growth. Sri Lanka’s strong growth performance has brought positive benefits to the economy and has benefited from a high quality labor force. The labor productivity is low by regional standards and the internal terms of trade are skewed toward the nontraded sector.

Subject: Credit, Foreign exchange, Human capital, Labor, Money, Production, Real effective exchange rates, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, CR, Credit, Credit concentration risk, Credit growth, E.U. apparel, East Asia, Global, Governance indicator, Growth potential, Human capital, ISCR, Private sector, Private sector credit, Real effective exchange rates, South Asia, TFP contribution, Total factor productivity

Publication Details

Pages:

50
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2007/374
Stock No:

1LKAEA2007002
ISBN:

9781451823592
ISSN:

1934-7685

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