-communicable disease (NCDs) and risk factors across socioeconomic and demographic groups (in the Western province of Sri Lanka) and assess …

This brief is based on analysis of the 2011-12 household budget survey (HBS) implemented by Central Administration for …-response, it only includes 2,476 participating households. Poverty numbers presented in this note are not comparable with poverty … also due to differences in the methodology for constructing welfare aggregate and the poverty line. All regional estimates …

-2016 poverty analysis study, by taking a closer look at some of the household-level welfare trends between 2011 and 2016 … underperformed. Poverty in Ethiopia deceased substantially over the past decade, although by less than what would have been expected …

Sri Lanka has an impressive track record of reducing poverty and sharing prosperity more broadly. A dynamic decade that … reversal of welfare gains. Before COVID-19, poverty reduction was mainly driven by increased labor earnings from nonfarm … economic transformation and poverty reduction …

development. Progress toward poverty reduction continued in recent years, but the contribution of the agriculture sector was weak …

Sri Lanka has made strong progress in reducing poverty and sharing prosperity among the less well-off in recent years …. The poverty rate using the World Bank's 3.20 Dollars poverty line (in 2011 purchasing power parity) declined from 16 ….2 percent in 2012/13 to 11 percent in 2016, a reduction that compares favorably to regional peers. Extreme poverty is almost …