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    Trade in Textiles and Apparel in South Asia
    (Centre for Trade and Development, 2005) Kelegama, Saman; Weeraratne, Bilesha
    This chapter provides an overview of Textile and Apparel (T&A) trade in South Asia and analyses the implications of the end of the Agreement of Textile and Clothing and future of the T&A trade. The analysis focuses on Sri Lanka and excludes Bhutan due to the unavailability of data while the Maldives and Nepal are of relatively low significance in South Asia’s T&A Trade.
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    Migration and Economic Remittances: Impact on Development
    (Routledge, 2016) Kelegama, Saman; Weeraratne, Bilesha
    This chapter presents an overview of Migration and Development (M&D) from the point of remittances. It initially outlines the theoretical developments in economics that deal with this nexus in ‘Theories on M&D’. In ‘Development impact of M&R authors focus on the development aspects of migration and remittances (M&R) followed by a discussion on mainstreaming migration in to development in ‘Mainstreaming migration for development’. The chapter is concluded with discussion about the future of migration, economic remittances and development in ‘Future of migration and economic remittances’.