
Sri Lanka : Recent Economic Developments »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 1998/118
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 November 1998
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451823455.002
ISBN: 9781451823455
Keywords: banking, commercial banks, foreign currency, banking units, capital expenditure, Sri Lanka:,
This paper reviews economic developments in Sri Lanka during 1995-97. After slowing to 4 percent in 1996, economic growth recovered to 61/2 percent in 1997. The slowdown in 1996 had been mainly owing to a severe dr...