This book is based on weekly commentaries on economic issues published in a Sunday newspaper for about 10 months from the last week of May 2005 to March 2006. Most of these commentaries were written under the pen-name Economist by the author of this volume. The book covers an important period where a number of domestic and global events influenced the economy of Sri Lanka at regular intervals—a crisis in the electric power sector, the international oil price hike, GSP-Plus scheme coming into operation, operationalization of the Pakistan-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement, steps to operationalize SAFTA, WTO debates before the Hong Kong Summit and the aftermath, growth of the Business Process Outsourc-ing industry, etc. The period under consideration also saw increasing inflow of aid, economic policy discussions and debates before the Presidential Election.
Making Sense of Economic Policies
A.D.V. de S. Indraratna
CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC ISSUES: SRI LANKA IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT by Saman Kelegama Sri Lanka Economic Association, 2007, 233 pp., 500
October 2007, volume 31, No 10