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Monetary Poverty Estimates in Sri Lanka: Selected Issues

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  • Gunetilleke, Neranjana

    (Centre for Poverty Analysis)

  • Senanayake, Dinushka

    (Centre for Poverty Analysis)

Abstract

The lack of an official poverty line in Sri Lanka until June 2004 has over time generated a number of poverty lines and corresponding poverty measures. While these poverty measures have provided a good base for poverty analysis, the paper also touches on the problems generated by the use of multiple methods. The release of the official poverty line by the Department of Census and Statistics can be seen as a major step forward in the debate on poverty measurement in Sri Lanka.

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  • Gunetilleke, Neranjana & Senanayake, Dinushka, 2004. "Monetary Poverty Estimates in Sri Lanka: Selected Issues," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 58, Asian Development Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:adbewp:0058
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    Keywords

    official poverty line; poverty analysis; poverty measures; Sri Lanka;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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