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Economic Growth and Social Transformations

Five Lectures on Sri Lanka

Author : Sanderatne, Nimal

Publisher: Tamarind Publications

Place of Publish: Sri Lanka, Colombo

Year: 2000

Page Numbers: 135

Acc. No: 70

Class No: 338.9 SAN-SL

Category: Books & Reports

Subjects: Development

Type of Resource: Monograph

Languages: English

ISBN: 955-9458-01-9

The five lecture papers in this book consists of a single underlying theme which focuses on the interaction between the economic and social processes that have been at work in Sri Lanka over the years since Independence. Dr. Sanderatne highlights the structural transformation of our economy from a primary production export economy related to plantation crops to one in which, domestic agriculture, industry and services have taken a dominant role.