This paper estimates the demand for road fuel (petrol and auto-diesel) in the context of a small developing economy—Sri Lanka. The data set covers a period of 39 years from 1964 to 2002 representing both close economy and ...
Technical and vocational education and training (TEVT) is an important strategic sector particularly in enhancing employability of new entrants to the labour market. It intermediates between the general education sector ...
This study makes an attempt to assess the health effects of diesel vehicle exhaust emissions in Colombo and the costs of various pollution control interventions. As far as we are aware, this is one of very few studies which ...
Sri Lanka has achieved human development indicators (HDI) higher than all South Asian countries. Its continued practice of free education policy since 1945 and growth and expansion of economic activities particularly under ...
Graduate unemployment has been a major socio-politico-economic problem in the small open economy of Sri Lanka for the past 35 years. The nature of the problem, causal factors and policy responses are examined in this paper ...
Pricing of auto-fuel (petrol and diesel) has been a subject of debate among policy makers,
administrators, politicians and multilateral agencies in Sri Lanka. Auto fuel pricing policies
adopted by successive governments ...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the employment effect of growth in manufacturing sector industriesin Sri Lanka covering a period of 17 years from 1990. In the main text, two periods are distinguished interms of ...