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Question
'In spite of the conflict, Sri Lanka has registered considerable economic growth and recorded high levels of human development’. Support the statement.
Solution
The ethnic conflict has been going on since 1983 but Sri Lanka made considerable economic growth as is clear from the following facts:
- Sri Lanka was one of the first developing countries to successfully control the rate of growth of population.
- It was the first country to liberalize the economy.
- It had the highest per capita gross domestic product(GDP) for many years right through the civil war.
- Despite the ravages of internal conflict, Sri Lanka maintained a democratic political system.
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