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Sri Lanka’s Female Workers and the Challenge of ‘Precarious Work’

In a special feature article marking International Women’s Day today (8th March 2012), IPS Research Fellow, Nisha Arunatilake pens an op-ed article on the emerging challenges of employment conditions facing Sri Lanka’s female workers.

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Revitalizing Sri Lanka’s Tertiary Education – The Need to Involve the Private Sector

> By Nisha Arunatilake, Research Fellow – IPS   In a bid to improve the quality of India’s higher education sector and to cater to a growing demand for skilled workers (consequent to  the rapid economic development), in late March 2010, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Cabinet paved the way for the establishment of outpost foreign [...]

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