Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation

Sri Lanka has an impressive track record of reducing poverty and sharing prosperity more broadly. A dynamic decade that spurred post-war growth and continued with a process of economic transformation led to a productivity boost and labor reallocation from agriculture to industry and services. The CO...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
Subjects:	POVERTY REDUCTION SHARED PROSPERITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY JOB CREATION INFORMAL SECTOR INCLUSION SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/153941634242634615/Sri-Lanka-Poverty-Assessment-Accelerating-Economic-Transformation-Synthesis-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36455

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spelling	okr-10986-364552021-11-04T05:10:34Z Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation World Bank POVERTY REDUCTION SHARED PROSPERITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY JOB CREATION INFORMAL SECTOR INCLUSION SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT Sri Lanka has an impressive track record of reducing poverty and sharing prosperity more broadly. A dynamic decade that spurred post-war growth and continued with a process of economic transformation led to a productivity boost and labor reallocation from agriculture to industry and services. The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have resulted in a significant reversal of welfare gains. Before COVID-19, poverty reduction was mainly driven by increased labor earnings from nonfarm sectors. New jobs were created in these sectors but there are concerns about their quality. Progress in improving agricultural earnings was slow; and the performance of social protection continued to be weak—these trends held back further progress in economic transformation and poverty reduction. 2021-11-03T13:22:29Z 2021-11-03T13:22:29Z 2021-10-13 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/153941634242634615/Sri-Lanka-Poverty-Assessment-Accelerating-Economic-Transformation-Synthesis-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36455 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment South Asia Sri Lanka
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description	Sri Lanka has an impressive track record of reducing poverty and sharing prosperity more broadly. A dynamic decade that spurred post-war growth and continued with a process of economic transformation led to a productivity boost and labor reallocation from agriculture to industry and services. The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to have resulted in a significant reversal of welfare gains. Before COVID-19, poverty reduction was mainly driven by increased labor earnings from nonfarm sectors. New jobs were created in these sectors but there are concerns about their quality. Progress in improving agricultural earnings was slow; and the performance of social protection continued to be weak—these trends held back further progress in economic transformation and poverty reduction.
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title	Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation
title_short	Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation
title_full	Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation
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title_sort	sri lanka poverty assessment : accelerating economic transformation
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2021
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/153941634242634615/Sri-Lanka-Poverty-Assessment-Accelerating-Economic-Transformation-Synthesis-Report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36455
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Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment : Accelerating Economic Transformation

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