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Terms of Trade of Sri Lanka and The Prebisch-Singer Hypothesis

The terms of trade are one of the hardiest perennials in the trade and development literature. These constitute an index of the division of the gains from trade between two trading partners(1). The issues pertaining to them can often be highly emotive and contentious. The terms of trade are important both for primaryproducing countries, as a determinant of their fore exchange earnings and for net importing countries, since it affects their cost structure. When a country in question is both a primary-producing and poor, the terms of trade it face becomes all the more important its well-being.