• Advisory Work
  
  
• Publications
  
  
• Reports
  
  
• Presentations
  
  
• Training


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• External Publications
  
  

• Priyanka Jayawardena attended the Financing Secondary Education in Asia and the Pacific Expert Group Meeting, Asia and the Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, Bangkok, Thailand, 17-18 March, 2011.

Publications

• “Formula Funding and Decentralized Management of Schools: Has it Improved Resource Allocation in Schools in Sri Lanka?” (with N. Arunatilake), International Journal of Educational Development, Vol. 30, pp. 44-53, 2010 (forthcoming).

• “Will Formula Based Funding and Decentralized Management Improve School Level Resources in Sri Lanka?” (with N. Arunatilake), PMMA Working Paper 2008 – 12, Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network, 2008.( http://www.pep-net.org/NEW-PEP/Group/papers/papers/PMMA-2008-12.pdf)

• “The Employees’ Provident Fund of Sri Lanka: Management and Performance Challenges in the Investment of Fund”, Sri Lanka Labour Gazette, Vol. 59, No.2, 2008.

• Book Review, “Children of War-Aspirations and Opportunities” (by Muttukrishna Sarvananthan), Montage, Issue No.5, 2008.

Reports

• “Macro Economic Policies for Growth and Employment Generation”, Report for ILO Geneva.

• “Tax Reforms in Sri Lanka – Will a Tax on Public Servants Improve Progressivity?” Report accepted for presentation at the annual Poverty and Economic Policy Network conference in Cambodia.

• “Catch-Up Education in Sri Lanka”, (with N. Arunatilake, C. Dharmadasa and D. Hirimuthugodage), report for the Ministry of Education, 2009.

• “Economic Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka”, (with G. Tilakaratna, T. Kumara and R. de Silva), UNDP Regional Centre, Colombo, and International Labour Office, Geneva, 2007.

• “Assessing Inequalities in Health Outcomes in Sri Lanka: Asset Indices vs. Household Consumption and Income” (with A. Somanathan, R. Rannan-Eliya,), for Equity in Asia-Pacific Health Systems (EQUITAP), European Commission, 2005.

Presentations

Impact of Remittance on the Household Welfare of the Emigrants in Sri Lanka
Asia Forum on Remittances and Development organized by the Project Consultancy unit of SEEDS (Gte) Ltd. in collaboration with Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI)
Hotel Taj Samudra,
Colombo,
11 – 12 January, 2011

Tax Reforms in Sri Lanka – Will a Tax on Public Servants Improve Progressivity?
Annual PEP General Meeting,
Cambodia,
5-9 December, 2011

Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants from 2002 to 2007
Annual PEP General Meeting,
Cambodia,
5-9 December,  2011

Why People Choose to Participate in the Informal Sector in Sri Lanka
International conference on “The Informal Sector in South Asia: Organizational Dynamics, Institutional Determinants, Inter-linkages and Development”
Organized by the Institute of Economic Growth and the University of Delhi,
New Delhi, India,
27-28 July, 2009.

• Priyanka Jayawardena, 2011, "Eradicating Child Malnutrition in Sri Lanka, Looking Beyond Health".

• Jayasuriya, S. and P. McCawley, 2010, "The Asian Tsumani", Asian Development Bank Institute and Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK.

• Milan Vodopivec & Nisha Arunatilake, "Population Aging and Labour Market Participation of Old Workers in Sri Lanka", Journal of Population Ageing,DOI 10.1007/s12062-011-9045-5

• Arunatilake N, and P. Jayawardena, 2010, "Equity in Education and Health Services in Sri Lanka", in Equity and Well-Being: Measurement and Policy Practice" (Ed) Hyun Son, Routledge, Oxon.

• Arunatilake. N, Jayawardena. P. and Weerakoon, D 2011. “Migration, Remittances and Development in Sri Lanka” in “Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia”, (Ed) Saman Kelegama, Sage Publication Pvt. Ltd