Promoting employment-intensive growth in Sri Lanka: policy analysis of the manufacturing and service sectors

In the main text, two periods are distinguished in terms of employment elasticity: a) the slow growth period of the 1990s and b) the period of high growth (post-2000). The paper uses an integrated framework which qualifies the relative importance of the key factors determining employment elasticity and its variations between the two time periods. The findings indicate that the manufacturing sector has responded positively to policy reforms of the post-1977 period in terms of growth,export orientation, productivity, profitability and employment creation.