Sri Lanka: Improving the Rural and Urban Investment Climate
Asian Development Bank | January 2005
Abstract
This investment climate assessment is the first to include an analysis of entrepreneurship in rural areas, allowing a more comprehensive look at the business environment. Fostering the growth of the rural nonfarm sector is critical to reducing poverty in Sri Lanka, still largely a rural society. Some 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas and rural nonfarm enterprises contribute significantly to GDP. The survey findings suggest that the total value added by all rural nonfarm enterprises in 2003 was SL Rs 185 billion-equivalent to 12 percent of GDP or 78 percent of agricultural GDP in 2003.
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Asian Development Bank. 2005. Sri Lanka: Improving the Rural and Urban Investment Climate. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2428. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Print ISBN
955-8908-12-6
Keywords
Sustainable agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Agricultural And Rural Development
Asian Development Bank
Water Resources Development
Sustainable Development
Agribusiness
Agroindustry
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