Unit 11 · Economic growth and development

A/L Economics

• Economic Growth: Measures, Determinants, Importance and Costs
• Economic Development, Human Development and Sustainable Development
• Measuring Development: Per Capita Income, the HDI and the Happiness Index
• Income Inequality: the Lorenz Curve, the Gini Coefficient and the Quintile Ratio
• Poverty: Concepts, Forms and Measurement
• Poverty in Sri Lanka: Levels, Regional Patterns, Causes and Policies
• Population of Sri Lanka: Growth, Distribution, Age Structure and the Demographic Transition
• The Labour Force of Sri Lanka: Definitions, Calculations and the Participation Rate
• Employment, Underemployment and Unemployment in Sri Lanka