Sri Lanka: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
March 16, 2004
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This paper explores how monetary policy affects other macroeconomic variables, mainly output and inflation. First, it provides an overview of the framework for implementing monetary policy and then discusses the transmission mechanism itself. In this study, the following statistical data are listed in detail: GDP and expenditure components, savings, investment, current account, consumption and prices of petroleum and electricity, price indicators, employment by economic sectors, monetary survey, selected interest rates, balance of payments, exports and imports by commodity, direction of trade, services and income.
Subject: Corporate income tax, Credit, Financial services, Monetary base, Money, Repo rates, Tax holidays, Tax incentives, Taxes
Keywords: accelerated depreciation, central bank, Corporate income tax, CR, Credit, exchange rate, ISCR, Middle East, private sector, repo rate, Repo rates, reverse repo, Tax holidays, Tax incentives, transmission mechanism
Pages:
61
Volume:
2004
DOI:
Issue:
069
Series:
Country Report No. 2004/069
Stock No:
1LKAEA0022004
ISBN:
9781451823493
ISSN:
1934-7685
