Prema-chandra Athukorala
Biographic Data
| ID | 5242813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prema-chandra Athukorala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prema-chandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Athukorala |
| SIGNATURE | ATHUKORALA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Saving Transition in Asia
This paper examines the national saving behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of countries in developing Asia from a historical perspective.Developing Asia provides an ideal laboratory for the study with considerable differences in the saving behaviour among countries and over time within individual countries, notwithstanding the 'model saver' image of the region that is based mainly on the experience of high-…
Domestic Value Added, Exports and Employment
The paper is motivated by the current emphasis on the share of domestic value added in exports (SVEX) as a policy criterion for export development strategy in developing countries. Our hypothesis is that the policy emphasis on SVEX, which harks back to the import substitution era, is inconsistent with the objectives of achieving economic growth with employment generation in this era of economic globalisation. We test this hypothesis by examining …
Economic corridors and regional development
The Sri Lankan Economy
This book is prepared during a pivotal period in Sri Lanka’s history—one of \nhistoric opportunity but also of daunting challenges. The country is now \nat peace. The peace dividend can be very large. Defense expenditure can \nbe wound back, as it has been in recent years, and the funds so released invested \nin badly needed education, health, infrastructure, and rural development \nprojects. Investors, domestic and foreign alike, can look to the…
Sri Lanka's post-civil war development challenge
The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalization reforms over the three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling fears that Sri Lanka's tale of missed opportunities may continue. The analysis in this paper suggests that the return to the failed past policies of inward-orien…
The Future of the World Trading System
Foreign direct investment in industrial transition
This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of industrial transition in Vietnam under market-oriented reforms. The findings are consistent with the conventional wisdom that concomitant liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, accompanied by creating a congenial environment for market-based decision making by the private agents, is vital for reaping developmental gains from FDI. During the 1990s growth of …
The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages
Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations
This paper aims to contribute to the contemporary policy debate on the role of trade policy reforms in economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries through a review of Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations by A.P. Thirlwall and Penelope Pacheco-Lopez (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar). It begins with a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book while emphasising the main strengths and novel contributions. This is followed …
Outward-oriented Policy Reforms and Industrialisation
This article examines Sri Lanka's industrialisation experience following the policy reforms initiated in 1977, with a view to informing the contemporary debate on the role of outward-oriented trade and investment policy in industrialisation in developing countries. There is strong evidence that improved performance of domestic manufacturing through greater export orientation has brought about significant improvement in output and total factor pro…
Post-crisis export performance
This paper examines post-crisis export performance in Indonesia against the backdrop of pre-crisis experience and the comparative export performance of other Southeast Asian countries. It surveys trends and patterns of export performance, focusing on comparative experience in major commodity categories and changing revealed comparative advantage. It also examines the implications for Indonesia's export performance of China's emergence as a major …
The Determinants of Private Saving in India
Determinants of Household Saving in Taiwan
This article examines the determinants of household saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Taiwanese experience during the period 1952–99. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life-cycle framework. It is found that the household saving rate rises with both the level and the rate of growth of household disposable income. The real deposit rate has a significant positive imp…
Survey of Recent Developments
Growth, Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia
This comparative analysis of growth, structural change and labour market dynamics in the Greater Mekong countries (Yunnan Province in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar) of Southeast Asia is the first of its kind. It explores economic integration and cooperation, the possibilities for improving the functioning of labour markets and facilitating mutually beneficial labour flows in the region.
Processed food exports from developing countries
Gains from Indonesian Export Growth
Intersectoral input linkages are often used as a criterion for assessing the developmental impact of export-led industrialisation, and for determining export development policy priorities. The authors argue, in the light of recent Indonesian experience, that this closed-economy planning tool is fundamentally flawed as a criterion for evaluating policy and performance in an export-oriented growth strategy For the period 1985 to 1995 we examine the…
Post-crisis export performance
This paper examines post-crisis export performance in Indonesia against the backdrop of pre-crisis experience and the comparative export performance of other Southeast Asian countries. It surveys trends and patterns of export performance, focusing on comparative experience in major commodity categories and changing revealed comparative advantage. It also examines the implications for Indonesia's export performance of China's emergence as a major …
The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages
The Determinants of Private Saving in India
Economic corridors and regional development
Foreign direct investment in industrial transition
This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of industrial transition in Vietnam under market-oriented reforms. The findings are consistent with the conventional wisdom that concomitant liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, accompanied by creating a congenial environment for market-based decision making by the private agents, is vital for reaping developmental gains from FDI. During the 1990s growth of …
Domestic Value Added, Exports and Employment
The paper is motivated by the current emphasis on the share of domestic value added in exports (SVEX) as a policy criterion for export development strategy in developing countries. Our hypothesis is that the policy emphasis on SVEX, which harks back to the import substitution era, is inconsistent with the objectives of achieving economic growth with employment generation in this era of economic globalisation. We test this hypothesis by examining …
The Sri Lankan Economy
This book is prepared during a pivotal period in Sri Lanka’s history—one of \nhistoric opportunity but also of daunting challenges. The country is now \nat peace. The peace dividend can be very large. Defense expenditure can \nbe wound back, as it has been in recent years, and the funds so released invested \nin badly needed education, health, infrastructure, and rural development \nprojects. Investors, domestic and foreign alike, can look to the…
Sri Lanka's post-civil war development challenge
The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalization reforms over the three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling fears that Sri Lanka's tale of missed opportunities may continue. The analysis in this paper suggests that the return to the failed past policies of inward-orien…
Processed food exports from developing countries
Gains from Indonesian Export Growth
Intersectoral input linkages are often used as a criterion for assessing the developmental impact of export-led industrialisation, and for determining export development policy priorities. The authors argue, in the light of recent Indonesian experience, that this closed-economy planning tool is fundamentally flawed as a criterion for evaluating policy and performance in an export-oriented growth strategy For the period 1985 to 1995 we examine the…
Gains from Indonesian Export Growth
Intersectoral input linkages are often used as a criterion for assessing the developmental impact of export-led industrialisation, and for determining export development policy priorities. The authors argue, in the light of recent Indonesian experience, that this closed-economy planning tool is fundamentally flawed as a criterion for evaluating policy and performance in an export-oriented growth strategy For the period 1985 to 1995 we examine the…
Processed food exports from developing countries
Growth, Employment and Migration in Southeast Asia
This comparative analysis of growth, structural change and labour market dynamics in the Greater Mekong countries (Yunnan Province in China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar) of Southeast Asia is the first of its kind. It explores economic integration and cooperation, the possibilities for improving the functioning of labour markets and facilitating mutually beneficial labour flows in the region.
Survey of Recent Developments
Determinants of Household Saving in Taiwan
This article examines the determinants of household saving in the process of economic development, in the light of the Taiwanese experience during the period 1952–99. The methodology involves the estimation of a saving rate function derived within the life-cycle framework. It is found that the household saving rate rises with both the level and the rate of growth of household disposable income. The real deposit rate has a significant positive imp…
The Determinants of Private Saving in India
Outward-oriented Policy Reforms and Industrialisation
This article examines Sri Lanka's industrialisation experience following the policy reforms initiated in 1977, with a view to informing the contemporary debate on the role of outward-oriented trade and investment policy in industrialisation in developing countries. There is strong evidence that improved performance of domestic manufacturing through greater export orientation has brought about significant improvement in output and total factor pro…
Post-crisis export performance
This paper examines post-crisis export performance in Indonesia against the backdrop of pre-crisis experience and the comparative export performance of other Southeast Asian countries. It surveys trends and patterns of export performance, focusing on comparative experience in major commodity categories and changing revealed comparative advantage. It also examines the implications for Indonesia's export performance of China's emergence as a major …
Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations
This paper aims to contribute to the contemporary policy debate on the role of trade policy reforms in economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries through a review of Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations by A.P. Thirlwall and Penelope Pacheco-Lopez (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar). It begins with a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book while emphasising the main strengths and novel contributions. This is followed …
Foreign direct investment in industrial transition
This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of industrial transition in Vietnam under market-oriented reforms. The findings are consistent with the conventional wisdom that concomitant liberalisation of trade and investment regimes, accompanied by creating a congenial environment for market-based decision making by the private agents, is vital for reaping developmental gains from FDI. During the 1990s growth of …
The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages
The Future of the World Trading System
Sri Lanka's post-civil war development challenge
The end of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009 generated widespread expectations of a period of sustained economic growth, building on the achievements of the liberalization reforms over the three previous decades. However, recent developments have dampened that optimism, rekindling fears that Sri Lanka's tale of missed opportunities may continue. The analysis in this paper suggests that the return to the failed past policies of inward-orien…
The Sri Lankan Economy
This book is prepared during a pivotal period in Sri Lanka’s history—one of \nhistoric opportunity but also of daunting challenges. The country is now \nat peace. The peace dividend can be very large. Defense expenditure can \nbe wound back, as it has been in recent years, and the funds so released invested \nin badly needed education, health, infrastructure, and rural development \nprojects. Investors, domestic and foreign alike, can look to the…
Economic corridors and regional development
Domestic Value Added, Exports and Employment
The paper is motivated by the current emphasis on the share of domestic value added in exports (SVEX) as a policy criterion for export development strategy in developing countries. Our hypothesis is that the policy emphasis on SVEX, which harks back to the import substitution era, is inconsistent with the objectives of achieving economic growth with employment generation in this era of economic globalisation. We test this hypothesis by examining …
Saving Transition in Asia
This paper examines the national saving behaviour in the process of economic growth through a comparative analysis of countries in developing Asia from a historical perspective.Developing Asia provides an ideal laboratory for the study with considerable differences in the saving behaviour among countries and over time within individual countries, notwithstanding the 'model saver' image of the region that is based mainly on the experience of high-…
Economics (15 works) · Global trade and economics (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Market economy (7 works) · International economics (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Global Financial Crisis and Policies (4 works)