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Sri Lanka Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka underlies the dynamics of growth and external competitiveness. The slowdown in the contribution of sectors that are labor intensive, together with faster growth in sectors that are capital intensive and have higher productivity levels, resulted in total factor...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2007
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Credit
Labour; Income Economics
Human Capital
Currency; Foreign Exchange
Monetary Economics
Capital And Total Factor Productivity
Cost
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, And The Supply Of Money And Credit: General
Industrial Productivity
Real Effective Exchange Rates
Production
Skills
International Economics
Total Factor Productivity
Money
Labor
Labor Productivity
Foreign Exchange
Labor Economics: General
Macroeconomics
Occupational Choice
Capacity
Money And Monetary Policy
Production And Operations Management
Labor Economics
Sri Lanka
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka underlies the dynamics of growth and external competitiveness. The slowdown in the contribution of sectors that are labor intensive, together with faster growth in sectors that are capital intensive and have higher productivity levels, resulted in total factor productivity (TFP) as the main contributor to growth. Sri Lanka’s strong growth performance has brought positive benefits to the economy and has benefited from a high quality labor force. The labor productivity is low by regional standards and the internal terms of trade are skewed toward the nontraded sector
Physical Description:50 pages
ISBN:9781451823592

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