Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 330.95 Economics
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 304695
• Chủ đề: 1. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; 2. INFORMAL SECTOR; 3. JOB CREATION; 4. POVERTY REDUCTION; 5. SHARED PROSPERITY

Tóm tắt

 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.