How has the Northern economy fared since the end of the war?



June 9, 2012, 12:00 pm 

By R.M.B Senanayake

At a recent seminar on the peace dividend, the speaker Dr Muttukrishna Sarvanandan drew attention to the fact that the share of government services which includes defense services is a high of 53% in the Northern Province. He was quoting from the Provincial GDP data prepared by the Department of Census & Statistics and published by the Central Bank given below. He said more than half of the northern provincial economy was accounted for by "Government Services" in 2009 which was referred to as "Public Administration, Other Government Services, and Defense" until 2007. The latest composition of the provincial GDP data is available for 2010. In fact, the share of Public Administration, Other Government Services, and Defense in the northern economy has increased from 38% in 2003, to 49% in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and further to 53% in 2009," he said. I could not find this data quoted by Dr Sarvanandan.

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