This paper empirically evaluates the performance of the Sri Lanka’s agricultural sector under policy reforms with respect to the exchange rate implications. Under the policy reforms, the exchange rate reforms made considerable impact on the agriculture exports, input and food imports and...

The agricultural sector of Sri Lanka, which was the back bone of the economy, suffered due to various reasons including the mostly argued policy reforms called Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). Having considered the problems associated with the earlier models, we have used the two sector...

We constructed a relatively simple dynamic general equilibrium model with an agricultural and a nonagricultural sector along neoclassical lines. The economy is closed, but it is not too difficult to evaluate how the opening of the economy would affect the conclusions. The model relates technical...

This paper is an attempt to quantify some interaction effects among capital accumulation, population growth and sectoral technical change in economic development. We tried to find a balance in the difficult trade-off just mentioned. We built a simple dynamic general equilibrium model along...