Sri Lanka’s Health Financing Challenge: Why Smarter Spending is Key
Across the globe, the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a new urgency around healthcare systems and universal health coverage – the access to high-quality and affordable healthcare services for all, as and when
Bridging the Gap: Unlocking Untapped Potential in Sri Lanka’s Agricultural Exports
The government is giving renewed emphasis to increasing agriculture exports to manage the trade deficit and foreign debt burden. Most recently, a draft national agricultural policy has been prepared, with comments being
Achieving Gender Equality: Quō Vādis, Sri Lanka?
For women’s month, we posed the following question to some of our researchers: what are some of the challenges women in Sri Lanka face from a gender equality standpoint and how can we tackle them? This blog carries responses
Talking Tobacco: How Reduced Consumption Benefits the Household
This blog, based on a forthcoming IPS publication, discusses the impact of tobacco spending on other basic needs. The findings of the study show that spending on tobacco results in households foregoing other critical expenditure.
Poverty reduction needs to be prioritised with cohesive export-led growth policy framework | SRI LANKA:[…] The limitations of using the NPL for poverty estimation have been articulated in his incisive article by Wimal Nanayakkara,…