Microfinance has become a powerful tool for poverty reduction, women’s empowerment, and inclusive growth for over two decades. Microfinance providers are constantly on the lookout for innovative approaches and distribution ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...