Malathy Knight-John
Email: malathy@ips.lk
Supervisor: Martin Minogue and Paul Cook
Research interests
Forthcoming 'Distributional Impacts of Privatization: The Sri Lankan Experience', Nellis, John and Nancy Birdsall (eds.) Reality Check: The Distributional Impact of Privatization, Center for Global Development, Washington D.C.
2004 'Regulatory Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka: The Bridges that have to be Crossed', Centre on Regulation and Competition Working Paper No.74, University of Manchester (with Shantha Jayasinghe and Andrew Perumal)
2004 'Adopting Regulatory Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka: a tool for better regulatory policy?', Law and Governance, 3, p.44, British Council, China.
2004 'Privatization and Regulation in Kelegama', Saman (ed.). Economic Policy in Sri Lanka: Issues and Debates - A Festschrift in Honour of Gamani Corea, Sage, New Delhi
2004 'Competition, Regulation and Regulatory Governance in Sri Lanka', P. Cook, C. Kirkpatrick, M. Minogue and D. Parker (eds.) Leading Issues in Competition, Regulation and Development, Edward Elgar
2004 'What Type of Competition Policy and Law Should a Developing Country Have?', South Asia Economic Journal, Vol.5, No.1
2002 'Institutional and Policy Framework for Regulation and Competition in Sri Lanka', Centre on Regulation and Competition Working Paper No. 40, University of Manchester
2002 'Competition Policy and Utility Regulation: The Sri Lankan Experience' (ed. Malathy Knight-John) Law & Society Trust, Colombo
2002 'Sri Lanka's Telecommunications Industry: From Privatization to Anti-Competition?', Centre on Regulation and Competition Working Paper No.14, University of Manchester (with Sisira Jayasuriya)
2001 'Liberalization and Privatization of Utilities and the Case for Effective Regulation: Some Lessons from Sri Lanka's Telecommunications Sector', People's Bank Economic Review, Volume 27, No. 6 & 7
2001 'A National Competition Policy: What is Required?', (Part 1) in LST Review, Vol 11, Issue 164
2001 'The Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement: A Critical Analysis', UC-ISS Project Working Paper No.2003, Colombo
1999 'Performance Contracts: The Sri Lankan Experience', Public Enterprise Reform and Performance Contracting: The State of the Art, United Nations, New York (with W.C Dheerasekera)
1999 'Productivity and Labour Cost in Manufacturing Industries: Sri Lanka', International Labour Organization, New Delhi (with Saman Kelegama and Prematilake Samararatne)
1998 'Liberalisation and Privatisation: Telecommunication Reforms in Sri Lanka', T elecommunications and Socio-Economic Development (eds. Stuart MacDonald and Gary Madden) Elsevier, Amsterdam (with Sisira Jayasuriya)
1997 'Private Participation in Infrastructure Development in Infrastructure Development in Sri Lanka: Regulation, Policy, and Finance', Asia Law & Practice Publishing Ltd, Hong Kong