Browsing VR Insights (issues) by Subject "economic growth"

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    • Can the Singapore Chinthanaya work for Sri Lanka? 

      Verité Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-10)
      Singapore is a classic example of an Asian country that avoided the middle-income trap, and it has often been sighted as a model for Sri Lanka. This article substantiates the claim that there is neither a theoretical nor ...

    • Explaining the Mirage of GDP Growth Optimism 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 14
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-08)
      The government estimates that by 2015 per capita GDP will quadruple from what it was in 2004. But this is a mirage: real incomes will not even double in that period. The mirage is created by counting in US dollars and ...

    • The post war growth bump has hit the ceiling 

      Verité Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08)
      This article explores the question of whether Sri Lanka could expect higher sustained GDP growth post-war and concludes that the post-war bump-up is over for the time being. It suggests that the high growth is unsustainable ...

    • Sri Lanka’s post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy 

      VR Insights;Vol. 4, No. 01
      Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
      Sri Lanka has been driving post-war growth in boom and bust cycles on the trade deficit; and fiscal measures have been used, especially spending on construction, to offset the bust cycles. This insight explains how this ...