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Social and Household Networks in Sri Lanka: Does Networking Create a Disparity in Employment Outcomes
(Social Science Research Network, 2019-11-15)
This paper estimates the impact of social and household networks on employment outcomes in Sri Lanka.The results indicate that social networks, measured by language choice and locality, improve employment outcomes by ...
Post-Covid19: Can the Sri Lankan apparel sector benefit from US-China decoupling? A statistical analysis
(National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka, 2021)
The “US-China decoupling” has received much attention with the deterioration of US-China diplomatic and economic ties under the Trump administration. US firms seeking to reduce their reliance on China offers an economic ...
Impact of COVID-19 Response on Unemployment in Sri Lanka
(Washington: Center for International Private Enterprise, 2020-10-01)
Goal number eight of the Sustainable Development Goals is set out as “Decent work and economic growth.” This goal recognizes that economic growth is not just an end, but also a means in itself of generating jobs – productive ...
Facing a Second Wave of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Economic Cost of a Lockdown Strategy
(Washington: Center for International Private Enterprise, 2020-08)
As of August 2020, Sri Lanka is currently in the post-lockdown stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the surge in the number of infections in mid-March, the country was forced into a complete lockdown with all-day ...
How Numbers Can Mislead: Does Retaining the Limit to The Appointment of Cabinet and Other Ministers Solve Administrative Inefficiency?
(2021-01)
This article discusses how, besides the obvious financial costs borne by having to maintain large cabinets, the focus on cabinet size alone in constitutional amendments proposed and passed conceals other problematic aspects ...
For Sri Lanka, a Governance-Linked Bond Might Just Be the Ticket
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-12-21)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Sri Lanka under-performs on its governance corrections, it will underperform on its economic recovery also (with apologies to Jane Austen), the first provides the foundation ...
ETCA With India: Time to Shift Focus From Market Integration to Supply Chain Integration
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-04-27)
This article looks at; 1) what are global supply chains and why do they matter; 2) how new trade deals are focusing more on supply chain resilience than market access; 3) how current trade deals with India are focused on ...
Why Tracking the IMF Programme Implementation is of Public Interest
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-05-25)
As Sri Lanka enters its 17th International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, a critical question remains. Will the country break from the past patterns of inconsistency and failure in following the plan it lays out with the ...
Why Does Sri Lanka Claim it Has Less Capacity Than Least Developed Countries for Trade Facilitation?
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-06-22)
Higher costs and time resulting from opaque, complex, time consuming, manual export and and import procedures discourage businesses from engaging in international trade and undermine their international competitiveness. ...
The Need for Governance-Linked State-Contingent IMF Programmes: A Third Way for Sri Lanka
(Colombo: DailyFT, Colombo: Daily Mirror, Online: International Banker, 2023-04-27)
The recent sovereign default of Sri Lanka has once again brought attention to the effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF) approach. This programmes provides loans of short ...