Sri Lanka is well known for achieving high levels of human development at relatively low
levels of GDP per capita. Successive governments have invested heavily in education …

Many trade and development economists, policy makers and policy analysts around the
world believe that globalisation promotes growth and reduces poverty. There exists a large …

Current trade policy pursued by the Sri Lankan government on rice can best be described as
ad-hoc as it is characterized by protecting farmers during glut seasons and consumers …

There has been a growing understanding in recent years of the links between conflict
emergence and horizontal inequalities and increased focus on the role which development …

The much-documented status of Sri Lanka's welfare achievements has primarily been a
result of continued policy commitment by successive governments. While a continued thread …

Provides an introduction to poverty-related data available in Sri Lanka, & monetary
measurements of poverty carried out using this data. The lack of an official poverty line in Sri …

Purpose–There has been growing interest in recent years in modelling various poverty‐
related issues. However, there have not been many attempts at empirical estimation of best …

This thesis evaluates the targeting strategy and impact on household welfare of two of the
largest components of the Samurdhi welfare program in Sri Lanka-the food stamp and …

Globalisation has been one of the most debated topics in recent years. The concept of
globalisation is complex and it means different things to different people. Many observers …

We plan to use decomposition methods developed earlier by Abrego and Whalley and also
by Weerahewa to separate out the influence of ethnicity based policies on distributional …