The liberalization of the Sri Lankan economy in 1977 and the privatization of state enterprises in the ensuing years, created a need for competition policy and rules-based regulatory systems to address distributional concerns. However, the integration of these newer external regulatory processes...

Based on data for the period 1981-1993 from the Annual Survey of Industries supplemented by data from Annual Reports and the Industrial Statistics Yearbook, discusses labour productivity growth in manufacturing in Sri Lanka.