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Item Child poverty in Sri Lanka: issues related to their education and access to safe water and sanitation(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2018-06) Nanayakkara, WimalThe aim of this study is to have a closer look at poor and vulnerable children in Sri Lanka, who are faced with various deprivations, related to access to education, safe water and sanitation. Out of the estimated population of 21.2 million in Sri Lanka in 2015, almost one third are children under the age of 19 years.1 It is important to know as to how many of these children are deprived and vulnerable, who are the children most affected and where are they located. Most of the socioeconomic indicators at national level indicate that Sri Lanka has made considerable progress during the last two to three decades, including reduction of poverty. However, eradicating extreme poverty for all people everywhere and to reduce poverty in all its dimensions, as envisaged in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - 1 (SDG- 1), is a difficult task unless suitable strategies are developed and implemented to minimise regional variations and variations between various Socio-economic Groups (SEGs). To achieve this goal, one of the main requirement would be to ensure that no child is in extreme poverty in Sri Lanka, as extreme poverty in children would lead to an intergenerational poverty cycle,2 which needs to be broken.Item Credit-based participatory poverty alleviation strategies in Sri Lanka: what have we learned(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 1997-10) Gunatilaka, RamaniThe principal objective of this EXECUTIVE SUMMARY study is to evaluate some of the key credit-based, participatory poverty alleviation strategies implemented by both the government and NGOs in Sri Lanka. Important questions raised are the extent to which social mobilisation efforts have succeeded in empowering the poor, and how successful have credit programmes been in reducing the vulnerability of poor households and in providing capital for microenterprise development. Project management issues such as the capacity to monitor, evaluate and assess programme impact, and the extent to which programmes are integrated and coordinated, are also looked at. The study aims to highlight the best practices that have the potential for replication, and where results have fallen short of expectations, has tried to identify the causes and suggest modifications to programme design that may help in achieving success in the future.Item Working beyond the age of retirement : patterns and determinants of elderly labour force participation in Sri Lanka(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2019-05) Tilakaratna, Ganga ; Sooriyamudali, Chinthani ; Perera,AnarkaleeSri Lanka has fastest ageing population in South Asia: The proportion of the population aged 60 and above that stood at 14% in 2015 in expected to rise to 21.2 % by 2023 and 25.6 % by 2040.Item Estimating Aswesuma Effectiveness(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2025-05) Amarasinghe, PulasthiThis paper develops and demonstrates an analytical framework to simulate the effects of the cash transfers proposed by the Aswesuma programme on households under various eligibility criteria for selection of its beneficiaries. The results enable decision-makers to evaluate the possibility of utilising joint or weighted criteria of 22 indicators used in selecting eligible candidates and to identify the necessary changes to move people along the poverty evaluations set forth by the programme criteria. The addition of other factors affecting key welfare outcomes highlights the importance of including climate change and disaster preparedness as a subset of eligibility criteria.