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Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka

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  • Halil Dundar
  • Benoit Millot
  • Yevgeniya Savchenko
  • Harsha Aturupane
  • Tilkaratne A. Piyasiri

Abstract

Despite internal conflict and the global financial crisis, Sri Lanka has made remarkable progress in the past decade, enjoying healthy economic growth and substantially reducing poverty. Moreover, Sri Lankans are the best-educated people in South Asia: the country has a 98 percent literacy rate, widespread access, high completion rates in both primary and secondary education, and gender parity in general education. Chapter two describes the general education and training system in Sri Lanka, especially the TVET sector. Chapter three examines the main drivers of skills demand and skills mismatches and gaps in Sri Lanka. Chapter four studies the relationship between education, training, and labor market outcomes, including skills already available in the workforce. Chapters five and six analyze factors affecting the skills supply system, such as cost, financing, and governance (chapter 5) and private sector provision (chapter six). Chapter seven briefly reviews firm-based training in Sri Lanka based on evidence from the employer survey. Chapter eight assesses workforce development policies in Sri Lanka based on the World Bank's Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) framework. Finally, chapter nine provides the summary of main findings and outlines possibilities for the way forward in skills development in Sri Lanka.

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  • Halil Dundar & Benoit Millot & Yevgeniya Savchenko & Harsha Aturupane & Tilkaratne A. Piyasiri, 2014. "Building the Skills for Economic Growth and Competitiveness in Sri Lanka," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 18409, December.
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    1. World Bank Group, 2018. "Global Economic Prospects, June 2018," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 29801, December.
    2. Halil Dundar & Benoit Millot & Michelle Riboud & Mari Shojo & Harsha Aturupane & Sangeeta Goyal & Dhushyanth Raju, 2017. "Sri Lanka Education Sector Assessment," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 27042, December.
    3. Abede Jawara Mack & Daniel White & Osiris Senghor, 2021. "The benefits of exposing post-secondary students to entrepreneurship training in Trinidad and Tobago," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, December.
    4. Rakkee Thimothy, 2017. "Skilling Migrant Workers in South Asia: Rhetoric and Reality," The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Springer;The Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE), vol. 60(4), pages 647-662, December.

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