This working paper is a written version of an oral presentation made originally at a seminar jointly organised by the Pathfinder Foundation and Point Pedro Institute of Development in Colombo on June 05, 2009 on the revival of the Northern Economy and subsequently at the Peace Research Institute...

This research paper compares and contrasts development outcomes of ‘traditional' or ‘old' and ‘emerging' or ‘new' sources of international development finance in Sri Lanka during the ceasefire time (2002-2005) when it depended on former sources and the post-civil war period (2009-2012)...

Three core objectives of the GSP are poverty reduction, promotion of ‘sustainable development' and ‘good governance' in beneficiary countries. Though what ‘good governance' specifically means is defined clearly (ratification and effective implementation of 16 core conventions on human and...

For too long, the political processes in Sri Lanka to resolve minority grievances have been preoccupied with the nature of the state (unitary versus federal), unit of devolution of political and administrative power (village, district, or province), language, land, police, and other...

The unofficial two-way contraband trade between Sri Lanka and India overshadows the official trade and capital transfers between the two countries. Quantitative estimates of this unofficial trade and transfer of capital are, however, hard to come by. This article attempts to make some estimates...

This paper assesses poverty in the conflict-affected North & East Province of Sri Lanka using hitherto unavailable data due to the protracted civil war. Past four years of ceasefire has generated data that enabled the materialisation of this paper. The main arguments of this paper are that (a)...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the economic background to the ceasefire agreement, economic dividends during the time of ceasefire (2002-2005) and the economic impact of the resumption of the conflict in December 2005. The period covered in this paper is 2000-2007. A brief overview of...

The aims and objectives of this paper are to: (i) find out the trade-off between ethnic conflict and economic growth in Sri Lanka. (ii) compare and contrast the defence expenditure with the social expenditures of Sri Lanka. (iii) compare and contrast Sri Lanka's defence expenditure within the...