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What impedes an economic revival in the North-East? by Muttukrishna Saravananthan The Government of Sri Lanka lifted the economic embargo on the rebel
held areas of the North and East province on January 15, 2002. The
economic embargo was in effect since 1990 and covered over 60 consumer
goods including fuel, food, and medicine. Some goods were totally
prohibited from entering the rebel held areas of the N&E province and
some had quantitative restrictions. The economic embargo created an
informal market for these prohibited and restricted supplies of goods in
the rebel held territory, which is almost 30 per cent of the total land
mass of Sri Lanka. Other Stories
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