Education, Jobs, and Youth
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 …
How do demographic changes affect economic growth in Sri Lanka?
By Priyanka Jayawardena, Research Officer, IPS Sri Lanka’s demography has come to a turning point where its prime working age population (aged 25-54) is shrinking and ageing simultaneously. This will impact heavily on the labour market and has the potential …
Demystifying Hawala/Undiyal – The Not So Dismal Science:[…] believed that informal fund transfer operations in Sri Lanka have expanded considerably due to the wide gap between the…