Browsing by Subject "Macroeconomics"

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    • Explaining the Mirage of GDP Growth Optimism 

      Verité Insights; Vol. 2, No. 14 - August 2014
      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 ...

    • Sri Lanka Budget 2013: Increasing Assistance, and Vulnerability 

      Economic series; December 2012
      de Mel, Nishan; Ratnayake, Jayani; Nathaniel, Vidya       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2012-12)
      This report presents an analysis of the contradictory nature of the Budget 2013 through increased assistance to the poor, while at the same time increasing their vulnerability. The analysis of Budget 2013, rather than ...