Monitoring the changes in coastlines is an important matter and has been the subject of great concern in recent years. The Western and North-Western provincial coasts of Sri Lanka are economically significant and have a highly dynamic nature. This study used satellite images from the Google...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can work as an effective means towards minimising business risk and maintaining amicable relationships with diverse groups of stakeholders. While many studies have examined the impacts of CSR on firm value and customer perceptions, little is known about the...

This paper analyses the impact of the three oil price shocks, the oil supply shocks, the aggregate demand shocks, the oil-specific demand shock Kilian (2009) and the residual shocks on the fuel prices of the small, oil importing economy of Sri Lanka. Findings suggest that, domestic petrol prices...

This paper examines whether sharecroppers and fixed-rent tenants in the rice farms of South Asia are distinguished by their farming skills. The idea that fixed-rent contracts are typically given to relatively skilled tenants dates back to the agricultural (tenancy) ladder hypothesis of Spillman...

This paper investigates whether and how Fair Trade certification improves the wellbeing of small-scale producers by drawing upon a field study carried out by the authors in 2009 in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. A point of departure from earlier studies is to use a mixed methods approach,...

Time series data for Sri Lanka span periods of pervasive trade and exchange restrictions along with periods of liberalized trade. This paper implements a structural econometric model of aggregate imports which incorporates the implications of the shifts in the policy regime. The results...

This research provides a comprehensive study of time series behavior of the postwar international tourist arrivals. The empirical study is carried out based on outbound tourist arrivals from all origins that create a demand for tourism in Sri Lanka. The time span is covers from July 2009 to June...

Sri Lankan tourism market consists all regions of the world. The Asian region is the highest tourist producer to Sri Lankan market. Short term forecasting plays a vital role in the process of operational level decision making in the tourism industry. It is a known fact that the expectations of...