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Recent Submissions
Sri Lanka state of the economy 2023: economic policy choices: from stabilisation to growth
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2023-10)
Sri Lanka: satate of the economy 1991/92
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 1991)
Regulatory impact assessment: a tool for better regulatory governance in Sri Lanka?
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2005-08)
A market-based economy would not always bring about maximum welfare to society due to
inherent failures. This is where regulations come into the picture. A strong and independent
regulatory structure balances the system. A good regulatory structure will protect consumers
but will also serve investors by levelling the playing field.
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, Wimal
The 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.
Credit-based participatory poverty alleviation strategies in Sri Lanka: what have we learned
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 1997-10) Gunatilaka, Ramani
The 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.