This paper assesses poverty in the conflict-affected North & East Province of Sri Lanka using hitherto unavailable data due to the protracted civil war. Past four years of ceasefire has generated data that enabled the materialisation of this paper. The main arguments of this paper are that (a)...

There are gainers and losers in every economic policy instrument. Policymakers would tend to choose economic policies as a result of which the gainers are expected to be greater than the losers. Thus, every economic policy instrument may have implications for income inequality and poverty. The...

This paper assesses poverty in the conflict-affected Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka using hitherto unavailable data due to the protracted civil war. Past four years of ceasefire has generated data that enabled the materialisation of this paper. The main arguments of this paper are...