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VPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 grgriy a Hirai phenomenon. Between 1986 and J 99 J, national paver./ rate: declined modestly. almost entire:/ because of a decline in rural poverty During the same period, urban poverty incrcv’sed Poorer house holds tut |Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
nĐPolicy Research Working Paper 1738Summary findingsDatr and Gunewardcna characterize poverty in Sri Lanka, using data from two recent household surveVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 een.Between 1985 -86 and 1990-91, national poverty declined modestly, almost entirely because of a fall in rural poverty (although poverty in the estate sector also declined). Agriculture, forestry, and fishing accounted for about 80 percent of rhe decline in national poverty. Favorable redistributi Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 on arid growth in rural mean consumption accounted about equally for the decline in rural poverty’.During the same period, urban poverty increased.ButSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
poverty in Sri Lanka is still largely a rural phenomenon. Nearly half the poor depend on agriculture for livelihood. Another 30 percent depend on OthVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 y in the urban sector. Poorer households tend to have higher dependency ratios, fewer years of schooling, lower rates of participation in the labor force, and significantly higher rates of unemployment.Direct transfer benefits from the Food Stamp Program are progressive and have a greater impact on Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 poverty than uniform allocations from the .same budget.Frzmomic growth could reduce poverty considerably.This paper a product of the Poverty and HumanSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
Resources Division, Policy Research Department — IS a revised version of a background papci for rhe Sri Lanka Poverty Assessment. Copies of this papeVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 2 473 3902. fax 202 522-1153. Internet address ọsader(<ị?worldbank.orgọr Andrea Ramirez, roumNS 036, telephone 202-458-5734. March 1997. (62 pages)The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of uork IB progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An ob Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 jective of the series is to get the findings out ợusMy. even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers cany the names of the authoSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
rs and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and COnciuitOKS expressed m thts paper are entirely those of the authors. They do nVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 ion CenterSome Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90 *Gaurav Datt and Dileni Gunewardena* This is a revised version of a background paper in support of the Sri Lanka Poverty Assessnent which was written by the authors at die Poverty and Human Resources Division, Policy Research Department, World Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 Bank. We are grateful to the Department of Census and Statistics, Ministry of Policy Planning and Implementation, Colombo. Sri Lanka, who provided USSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
with (he data as well as prompt answers to our subsequent queries. We have benefited from the comments of Hugo Diaz at various stages of die work. We VPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 latively poor country with excellent social indicators has held an important place in policy discussions on poverty and human development. Its experience has often been considered an eminent example of "support-led* as distinguished from “growth-mediated" strategy to improvement in basic capabilitie Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 s (Dreze and Sen, 1989), though this view has not gone uncontested. In particular, there has been much debate on the relative importance of growth inSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
average incomes and social sector spending for improvements in basic social indicators such as life expectancy and under-5 mortality.' This debate hasVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 rently large poverty-oriented literature, there remain large gaps in what we know about income or consumption poverty in Sri Lanka.For example, poverty estimates for Sri Lanka have seldom gone beyond the disaggregation for rural, urban and estate sectors, and there does not seem to exist any consist Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 ent regional poverty profile for the country. We also do not know how levels of poverty vary by socio-economic characteristics such as the sector of eSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
mployment, gender of the head of the household, or ethnic groups. Similarly, little is known about the relationship between consumption poverty' and oVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 es in poverty and what the proximate determinants of those changes may have been.This paper attempts to fill some of these holes in our knowledge of consumption poverty in Sri Lanka. The paper is based on an analysis of data from two recent household surveys in Sri Lanka, viz., the Labor Force and S Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 ocio-economic Survey (LFSS) of 1985-86 and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) of 1990-91 conducted by the Department of Census and StaSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
tistics (DCS). The DCS surveys have been the basis of several previous estimates of poverty, but have remained under-utilized for a detailed characterVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 ns in this debate include Isenman (1980), Sen (1981, 1988). Bhalla and Glewwe (1985, 1986), Ravallion (1987), Bhalla (1988a.b), Anand and Kanbur (1991), Kakwani (1993), Aturupane, Glewwe and Isenman (1994).1poverty measurement in section 2. Section 3 deals with the construction of spatial and tempor Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 al cost of living indices, an issue which has been largely ignored in the empirical poverty literature on Sri Lanka. The detailed results are presenteSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
d in sections 4-6. Section 4 presents our estimates of absolute poverty for 1985-86 and 1990-91 at the national and sectoral level, and examines the rVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fg Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 changes in poverty using some simple decompositions. In section 5, we present a detailed regional and socio-economic poverty profile. In section 6, we use the data to examine the targeting performance of the Food Stamp Program which has been a key anti-poverty program in the country. We also look at Some aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90 the implications of the poverty profile for targeting resources and development programs, and the potential effect of economic growth on future poverSome aspects of poverty in sri lanka 1985 90
ty reduction. The final section concludes with a brief summary of the main findings.VPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fgVPSVTÒSPolicy Research Workinc; Paper 1738Some Aspects of Poverty in Sri Lanka: 1985-90Gatcrav DaỉíDileni GunewardenaPoverty in Sr? l^nkrt fa stril fgGọi ngay
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