IMF Staff Country Reports

Sri Lanka: Recent Economic and Policy Developments

December 10, 1999

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Sri Lanka: Recent Economic and Policy Developments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1999) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews economic and policy developments in Sri Lanka during 1996–98. Despite the slowdown in world trade and economic growth, Sri Lanka’s economy grew in 1998 at close to its historic average rate. The recorded 4¾ percent growth in real GDP was lower than 1997 when the economy was recovering after a bad harvest. In the first twelve months following the outbreak of the Southeast Asian crisis, Sri Lanka was helped by reduced export competition and lower commodity prices. But by the middle of 1998, growth in Sri Lanka started to slow markedly.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Inflation, Labor, Pensions, Prices, Public sector

Keywords: Banking system, Broad money, Commercial banks, CR, Exchange rate, Foreign banks, Global, Inflation, ISCR, Pensions, Private sector, Public sector, South Asia, Southeast Asia, U.S. dollar

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    129

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1999/136

  • Stock No:

    1LKAEA0011999

  • ISBN:

    9781451823394

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685