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April 2003, Debayani Kar
This paper shows that Sri Lanka has achieved substantial economic progress over the prior two decades — in spite of pursuing very different policies than those described in the government’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (recently submitted to the IMF and World Bank).
