Equity, growth and insurrection : liberalisation and the welfare debate in contemporary Sri Lanka /

Protagonists in the 1980s' debate on equity and growth in Sri Lanka claimed to show that economic liberalization could deliver growth without jeopardizing equity, and the main lesson that they drew from the Sri Lankan experience - that welfarism should be abandoned - helped to reinforce neolibe...

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Main Author: Dunham, David M
Other Authors: Jayasuriya, Sisira K W
Format: Book
Published: Bundoora, Vic. : La Trobe University. School of Business, 1998
Series:Discussion paper ; no. A98.11
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