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Economic Policy Shifts in Sri Lanka: The Post-conflict Development Challenge

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Jayasuriya, Sisira - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

The end of the long civil war in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a peace dividend that would enable Sri Lanka to embark on a period of sustained economic growth, but recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling fears that Sri Lankaâ€™s tale of missed...

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Calorie Thresholds and Undernutrition in India, 1993–2004

Kaicker, Nidhi; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In a recent study, Jensen and Miller (2011) propose a new measure of undernutrition, based on a calorie share of …

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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India: Public Works versus Food Subsidy

Jha, Raghbendra; Imai, Katsushi S.; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …, poverty and undernutrition are significantly higher for the households with access to PDS than those without, whilst PDS has …

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Determinants of Undernutrition in Rural India

Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2003

strictly comparable with the earlier rounds. We also analyse logit models of determinants of undernutrition. …

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Economic Roots of Political Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka

Abeyratne, Sirimal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2002

Escalation of political conflict in many developing countries and their impact on economic development has been a topical issue in recent development literature. The overwhelming emphasis on 'ethnic conflicts' in this literature has, however, precluded looking at political conflict in the wider...

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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism

Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...

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Changing patterns of food consumption in Sri Lanka: 1985–2009

Wijesekere, Gaminiratne - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015

This paper examines the patterns of food consumption in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2009 using the food disappearance data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Trends in per capita daily calorie, protein and fat supply have been examined. The study finds that grain food products are...

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Sri Lanka's Trade Policy: Reverting to Dirigisme?

Athukorala, Prema-chandra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012

This paper surveys recent development in Sri Lankan trade policy, with an emphasis on emerging protectionist tendencies, using Sri Lankaâ€™s Trade Policy Review (2010) by the World Trade Organization as a reference point. The Sri Lankan experience for over the three decades following the...

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Repositioning in the Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post-MFA Era: Strategic Issues and Evidence from Sri Lanka

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Ekanayake, Raveen - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

A widely-held view in the lead-up to the abolition of the Multi-fiber Arrangement (MFA) quotas in 2005 was that, in a quota-free global market, large low cost countries (in particular China and India) and countries in proximity to the major markets (such as Mexico, Turkey and countries in the...

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Economic Roots of Political Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka

Abeyratne, Sirimal - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2002

Escalation of political conflict in many developing countries and their impact on economic development has been a topical issue in recent development literature. The overwhelming emphasis on ‘ethnic conflicts’ in this literature has, however, precluded looking at political conflict in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115661