ACTIVE STATE CONTROL VS. JMARkET GUIDANCE 4^ 1981/2 Report: Employed : Those with gainful employment, at least one day (minimum of 3 hours) in the Survey week. Unemployed: Those over 14 years of age without employment in the Survey week and were actively seeking work. 15. Defined as the total number of man days lost due to the non-availability of work expressed as a percentage of total number of man days for which they were available for work. This was estimated for only the "employed persons". 16. Source : Department of Census and Statistics. 17. This statement has to be interpreted carefully. Eligibility for food stamps was based on household income and also family size. Because of the latter factor, some families whose declared income was above Rs. 300 per month also received food stamps depending on their family size. 18. The analysis is done here with perfect awareness of the fact that this involves two obvious assumptions of somewhat dubious validity : (a) that there ar.e no loca-tional variations in income needs for minimum consumption requirements and (b) that no basic changes have taken place over this period in consumption patterns and requirements. 19. One may note in passing that the year 1973 was a rather bad year under the control-subsidy regime of the pre-1977 period due to various extraneous factors already mentioned. 20. Debt service payments as a ratio of exports of goods and services. 21. The instability and vulnerability introduced by the market-orientation of economic policy have, since mid-198 3, been quite significantly aggravated by a nationality crisis emerging out of the worsening of the country's ethnic relationships. The growing defense budget burden is just one aspect, perhaps not the most significant aspect, of this nationality crisis. Key to Reference Pat Alailima, 1985, ^Impact on Social Programmes and Service Delivery" UNICEF, Sri Lanka: The Social Impact of Economic Policies During the Last Decade, June, UNICBF, Colombo, pp. 24-40. P. Athukorale, 1985. "The Impact of 1977 Policy Reforms on Domestic Industry", Vpanathi, Vol. 1. No 1, pp. 69-105. W. Bello, D. Kinley and E. Elison, 1982, Development Debacle ; The World Bank in the Philippines, Institute for Food and Development Policy. Central Bank, 1964, Survey of Ceylon's Consumer Finances, 1963, Colombo. 1974, Survey of Sri Lanka's Consumer Finances, 1973, Colombo* 1983, Report on Consumer Finances and Soda-Economic Survey, 1978^79 : Sri Lanka, Part I, Colombo. N. Edirisinghe, 1985, The Pood *Stamp Programme in Sri Lanka : Costs, Benefits and Policy Options, IFPRI Research Report. Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman, 1980, Free to Choose : A Personal Statement, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Government of Sri Lanka, 1972, Policy of the Government of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) on Private Foreign Investment, Ministry of Planning and Employment, Colombo. ILO, 1971, Matching Employment Opportunities and Expectations : A Programme of Action for Ceylon, Technical Papers, Geneva. P. Isenman, 1980. "Basic Needs : The Case of Sri Lanka'\ World Development, 8 : 3, March, pp. 237-258.