This report on poverty assessment in Sri Lanka establishes that the development story in Sri Lanka is one of mixed … services. At the same time, consumption income poverty persists and the poor continue to face basic welfare challenges such as … housing. At the household level, the report assesses the cyclical nature of poverty traps caused by low levels of education …

To rejuvenate the slow poverty alleviation process in Sri Lanka, the first step would be to better understand the … geographical distribution of poverty, which in turn would require estimating poverty at a level of disaggregation lower than the … district level. This policy note summarizes results and experience of a poverty mapping exercise in Sri Lanka that has been …

This Poverty Assessment report reviews the evolution, and nature of poverty in Sri Lanka, by examining why its … significant, recent economic downturn contrasts sharply with its considerable, economic advances during the 1960s; why poverty …, whether the large resources given to re-distributive programs, really helped reduce poverty. In response, Sri Lanka's hesitant …

accelerate trade integration and growth, and to reduce poverty. Each part of the report focuses on a key question and provides an … poverty reduction using two types of macroeconomic models. The report concludes with policy priorities for accelerating …

The Global Monitoring Report 2014/2015: Ending Poverty and Sharing Prosperity was written jointly by the World Bank … Development. This year's report details, for the first time, progress toward the WBG's twin goals of ending extreme poverty by …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …