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CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in Sri Lanka in the early years of the 21st Century. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and
per-capita GDP, for example. Perhaps
your paper could focus on life expectancy or infant mortality. Other factors of interest might be
unemployment, literacy, access to basic services, etc. On the other hand, you might choose to
include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** Sri Lanka, like
many other countries, is experiencing the impacts of climate change, leading
to extreme weather events. It is
estimated that close to 19 million Sri Lankans may live in areas that could
become moderate or severe hotspots in terms of floods or droughts by 2050. Nearly 87% of Sri
Lankans are living in areas likely to experience extreme temperatures and
rainfall – adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook – Sri Lanka U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ce.html [accessed 17
November 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/sri-lanka/ [accessed 10 January 2021] ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - is attempting to
sustain economic growth while maintaining macroeconomic stability under the
IMF program it began in 2016. GDP -
per capita (PPP): $12,900 (2017
est.) Labor
force - by occupation: agriculture:
27% industry:
26% services:
47% (31 Dec 2016) Unemployment
rate: 4.4% (2017
est.) Population
below poverty line: 6.7% (2012
est.) Maternal
mortality rate: 36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) Infant
mortality rate: total: 7.8 deaths/1,000 live births Life
expectancy at birth: total population: 77.5 years Drinking
water source: improved: total: 92.6% of
population Physicians
density: 0.93 physicians/1,000 population (2017) Sanitation
facility access: improved: total: 98.9% of
population Electricity
access: electrification - total population: 95.6% (2016) The
Borgen Project – Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/category/sri-lanka/ [accessed 9 March 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the
United States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for
the world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
5 Facts About Women’s Rights In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/womens-rights-in-sri-lanka/ ~
How Microsoft Is Improving Tea Farming In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/microsoft-improving-farming-in-sri-lanka/ ~
Reducing Hunger In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/hunger-in-sri-lanka/ ~
8 Facts About Healthcare In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/healthcare-in-sri-lanka/ ~
5 Facts About Poverty In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/facts-about-poverty-in-sri-lanka/ ~
5 Leading Diseases In Sri Lanka borgenproject.org/leading-diseases-in-sri-lanka/ Hunger
and starvation amidst a multiplicity of economic problems The Sunday Times - Sri Lnaka, 27 June 2021 [accessed 27 June 2021] RECAPITULATION --
Undoubtedly the severest economic impact of COVID, globally and on Sri Lanka,
is the deprivation of employment and incomes of a large proportion of the
population. This has been much more in less developed countries owing to the
larger number that has been affected and their incidence of poverty is
higher, their greater dependence on
global trade, the nature and structure of employment and the lesser capacity
of governments to effectively intervene with adequate relief measures. As a
result there has been a considerable increase in poverty and starvation. This
has been the case in Sri Lanka. Sri
Lanka’s weak public finances and perilous state of external finances severely
limits the capacity of the Government to adopt adequate measures to alleviate
poverty, provide income support and prevent starvation. In
addition, inappropriate policies and ineffective administration have
depressed incomes and aggravated poverty and starvation. The relief measures
have been grossly inadequate to cope with the severity of the problem. The
fragile public finances and perilous foreign reserves limits
the capacity to expend money on relief measures. The
World Bank in Sri Lanka www.worldbank.org/en/country/srilanka/overview [accessed 21 April 2021] Sri
Lanka is a lower-middle-income country with a GDP per capita of USD 3,852
(2019) and a total population of 21.8 million. With over six decades of
partnership with Sri Lanka, World Bank Group continues to support Sri Lanka’s
transition to a more competitive, inclusive, and resilient country. Looking back a few years … Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Sri-Lanka-ECONOMY.html [accessed 10 January 2021] Since 1977,
the Sri Lankan economy, once dominated by agricultural, has experienced
strong growth in its industrial and services sectors. Economic
expansion has been led by manufactures, particularly textiles and apparel,
which is also the leading net earner of foreign exchange. In
1983, countrywide riots that left nearly 400 dead and 79,000 homeless
signaled the beginning of what proved to be 19 years of separatist violence
by the Tamil Tigers. In the latter half of the 1980s, the national economy
was faced with grave challenges: escalating defense expenditures to combat
the insurgency; recurrent drought; depressed world prices for major export
crops, tea and coconut-based goods; and stagnant government revenues. These
conditions produced a resurgence of inflation, increasing unemployment,
critical current account deficits and stagnating economic growth. All
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