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    External Shocks and Domestic Policy Adjustment: The Case of Sri Lanka
    (The Indian Institute of the Economics, 1994) White, Howard; Kelegama, Saman
    A major methodological problem in the analysis of adjustment policies is the separation of the effects of the policies themselves from those changing external conditions. But such a separation can be clearly made by decomposing the sources of change in the current account. In this paper authors apply methodology, with a number of important modifications to the experience of Sri Lanka for the period 1971 to 1991. By extending the decomposition analysis to cover the capital account authors are able to address a further important issue in the adjustment debate: namely distinguishing the impact of external finance given to support domestic policy adjustment efforts from that of the efforts themselves.
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    Privatization and the Public Exchequer: Some Observations from the Sri Lankan Experience
    (United Nations ESCAP, 1997) White, Howard; Kelegama, Saman
    This paper examines the Sri Lankan experience with privatization from 1989 to 1996 and argues that its short-run fiscal benefits have not been significant even when the direct and indirect costs of privatization are ignored. Fiscal gains from privatization should be considered long-term benefits and greater importance should be given to designing a transparent privatization programme to promote competition and to stimulate the capital market. Such a strategy can address the problem of the fiscal burden of subsidizing State-owned enterprises more effectively than a privatization programme that is designed for speedy execution in a non-transparent manner or one whose objective is to achieve revenue targets according to short-term budgetary needs.