Gender Dimensions of Education Access and Achievement in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri Lanka, an island countrywith a population of 20.6 million has stood out from its regional count...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/963031539103561997/Gender-Dimensions-of-Education-Access-and-Achievement-in-Sri-Lanka http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30624 |
| Summary: | Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income
country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic
and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri
Lanka, an island countrywith a population of 20.6 million
has stood out from its regional counterparts with high
levels ofhuman development. Sri Lanka’s score in the Human
Development Index (HDI) is 0.766—whichput the country in the
high human development category (UNDP 2016). The country has
also hasalso witnessed significant economic growth in recent
years: in 2017, its per capita income was3,842 (UDS), more
than four times that of its GPD in 2002. With these
achievements, it has nowadvanced the economic ladder, from a
low to a middle-income country.2. Policy makers are keen to
build on the country’s successes and to ensure that the
benefitseconomic growth are distributed equitably in the
population. Sri Lanka is poised to grow, witha development
strategy expressly aimed at fostering strong and equitable
growth for its entirepopulation (Bhatta, Ebenezer and Nyugen
2014). Despite its achievements in human development,the
country has had persistent pockets of inequity, by region,
as well as population sub-group- andsocial inequity, whether
caused by gender, economic disadvantage, or any other
factor, over a longperiod of time, that has limited the
potential benefits of growth (Aturupane 1999a; Dundar,
Millot,Riboud, Shojo, Aturupane, Goyal, and Raju 2017). Sri
Lanka’s policy makers recognize this andunderstand the
importance of ensuring equitable growth. |
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