"This paper provides an introduction to poverty-related data available in Sri Lanka and monetary measurements of … poverty carried out using this data. The lack of an official poverty line in Sri Lanka until June 2004 has over time generated … a number of poverty lines and corresponding poverty measures. While these poverty measures have provided a good base for …

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 …

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 …

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses … measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new … insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction. …

The transmigration program in Gorontalo Province plays an important role in poverty reduction. The districts of …-Likert scale. The objectives of this research are: (1) to measure the multidimensional poverty level of transmigrant and … local households, (2) to determine the impact of the transmigration program on poverty reduction and (3) to identify the …

Poverty reduction has become a top goal in the socio-economic development strategies of countries and a topic of … interest for researchers. A number of prior empirical studies have identified the importance of financial inclusion to poverty … reduction. However, most of these studies assess the effect of financial inclusion on income poverty reduction. There are …