Managing domestic and international challenges and opportunities in post-conflict development: lessons from Sri Lanka

Chapter 1: Challenges and Opportunities of Sri Lanka's Post Conflict Economic Development – Overview -- Part I: Policies, regulations, and governance for smart growth -- Chapter 2: Incentives, efficiency and competitiveness for balanced growth -- Chapter 3: Governance, institutions, and regulatory reforms for improving efficiency -- Chapter 4: Managing macro stability while investing in reconstruction -- Chapter 5: Policies for ensuring sustainable development -- Part II: Post-conflict development in a transforming global economy -- Chapter 6: Sourcing funds for development in the new global finance landscape -- Chapter 7: Changing global economic context and post-conflict development -- Chapter 8: Sri Lanka's Role in South Asia-East Asia Economic Integration -- Chapter 9: Balancing economic partnerships for growth -- Chapter 10: Rethinking industrialization in a changing world order -- Part III: Smarter Development for Sustaining Peace -- Chapter 11: Making use of new opportunities: tourism in post-conflict development -- Chapter 12: Economic transformations for better lives through better jobs -- Chapter 13: Modernizing agriculture for reviving the rural economy -- Chapter 14: Achieving Equity in Development -- Chapter 15: Transitioning to middle Income: profiting from planned urbanization

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: Challenges and Opportunities of Sri Lanka's Post-conflict Economic Development Overview -- 1 Post-war Economic Recovery: A Temporary Boom -- 2 The Coalition Government: 2015-2018 -- References -- Policies, Regulations, and Governance for Smart Growth -- 2 Trade and Competition Policies: Implications for Productivity Growth in Sri Lanka -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Trade and Competition: The Generic Case -- 3 The Sri Lankan Context -- 3.1 Trade Policies -- 3.2 Competition Policies -- 3.3 Outcome of Reforms -- 3.4 State-Owned Enterprises: The Special Context -- 4 Likely Contributions of Trade and Competition Policies to Productivity -- 4.1 Contribution of Trade and Competition Policies for TFP Growth -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix I -- Trade and Competition Policies, Four Cases -- References -- 3 Regulatory Reforms in Post-conflict Sri Lanka: Breaking the Cycle? -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Path Dependence: Sri Lanka's Public Enterprise Reforms in Context -- 3 The SOE Reforms in Post-conflict Sri Lanka -- 3.1 Eschewing Privatization, 2005-2014 -- 3.2 Public Enterprise Reforms Post-2015 -- 4 Sri Lanka's SOE Reform Process: A Reality Check -- 5 Breaking the Mold: SOEs for Inclusive Growth -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4 Managing Macroeconomic Stability While Investing in Reconstruction in Post-conflict Sri Lanka -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of the Liberalization Shock and the End of Conflict Shock -- 2.1 Liberalization Shock -- 2.2 End of Conflict Shock -- 3 The Global Economic Environment in the Aftermath of the Two Shocks -- 4 External Assistance to Sri Lanka in the Aftermath of the Two Shocks -- 5 Impact of the Shocks -- 6 Policy Response to Shocks -- 7 Stability in the Aftermath of the Shocks.