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Sri Lanka's plantation sector: a before‐and‐after privatization comparison
Author(s) -
Loh Ai Tee,
Kam Booi Hon,
Jackson John T.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.989
Subject(s) - sri lanka , business , state (computer science) , operational efficiency , interpretation (philosophy) , economics , development economics , agricultural economics , natural resource economics , public economics , socioeconomics , marketing , mathematics , computer science , algorithm , tanzania , programming language
Sri Lanka's plantation sector was privatized in 1992. By comparing the performance of the State Corporations prior to 1992 and that of the transformed privatized entities post‐1992, this paper examines whether the operational efficiency of the sector has improved since privatization using six major efficiency indicators. While the results tend to favor the interpretation of an improvement in operational efficiency, data deficiency has made it difficult to identify possible causes for such an improvement. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.