Significant transformations in the socio-political and economic landscape of Sri Lanka in recent years encouraged five development partners-World Bank, Asia Foundation, and the governments of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Sweden to collaborate on a conflict assessment in 2005. This...

The three-decade war in Sri Lanka left parts of the northern and eastern regions severely destroyed. Those regions are populated by minority and marginalized ethnic groups. The expectation is that aid flows to those regions to rebuild after the war as they need the aid more than other places....

This paper empirically examines the foreign aid-FDI nexus. There appears to be a notion asserting that foreign aid plays a catalytic role in stimulating private capital inflows. The attempt in this paper is to examine the possible catalytic or deterring effects of foreign aid on FDI inflows with...