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Building a Social Security System in Sri Lanka

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  Dr Stephen Kidd   Advisory Board, Institute for Political Economy CEO, Development Pathways Key Takeaways   A survey by the Right to Life Human Rights Centre found that 37 per cent of Sri Lanka’s population were dissatisfied by Aswesuma – a social security system targeted at the poorest members of society – and only […]

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Gendering the debt crisis: Feminists on Sri Lanka’s financial crisis

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Backdrop    Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television screens, social media, and newspapers. Carers with young children, mothers with new-borns leaving them with equally young children while they stood in queue for gas or kerosene, children doing their homework on tuk-tuks while their parents got in line for

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