Sri Lanka : Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Sri Lanka, How Likely and What Will it Take to Reduce Poverty, Child Mortality and Malnutrition, and to Increase School Enrollment and Completion?

This report focuses on the attainment of five major human development-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by sub-national units in Sri Lanka relating to poverty, under-five and infant mortality, child malnutrition, schooling enrollment and completion, and gender disparities in schooling. The...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Social Analysis
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ABSOLUTE TERMS AGED ANNUAL RATE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY CONSUMPTION POVERTY DATA QUALITY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DIETS DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ECONOMICS ECONOMICS LITERATURE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION PROGRAMS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES EXPENDITURE SURVEY EXTREME POVERTY FEMALE LITERACY GENDER DISPARITIES GINI COEFFICIENT GIRLS GOOD GOVERNANCE GROWTH PERFORMANCE HEADCOUNT RATIO HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES HEALTH SURVEY HOUSEHOLD DATA HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT INCOME LEVELS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INFANT MORTALITY INSTITUTIONAL REFORM INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS INTERVENTION LIFE EXPECTANCY LIVING STANDARDS MALNUTRITION MEAN CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES MORTALITY MOTHERS MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS NATIONAL AVERAGE NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NUTRITION PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY VARIABLES POOR PERFORMANCE POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVEL POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRENDS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIVATE SECTOR PRO-POOR PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC PROGRAMS PURCHASING POWER PURCHASING POWER PARITY QUALITATIVE VARIABLES REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DISPARITIES RURAL POVERTY SCHOOL SYSTEM SECONDARY DATA SECTOR ACTIVITIES SERVICE DELIVERY SERVICE SECTOR SOCIAL INDICATORS SOUTH ASIAN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS TASK TEAM LEADER URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/06/6036551/sri-lanka-attaining-millennium-development-goals-sri-lanka-likely-take-reduce-poverty-child-mortality-malnutrition-increase-school-enrollment-completion http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8635

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Summary:	This report focuses on the attainment of five major human development-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by sub-national units in Sri Lanka relating to poverty, under-five and infant mortality, child malnutrition, schooling enrollment and completion, and gender disparities in schooling. The selection of these MDGs for detailed analysis was based in large part on the availability of reliable sub-national data. The report concludes that of these MDGs, Sri Lanka has already attained the numerical goals relating to universal primary enrollment and completion. Indeed, the country had almost met these goals as far back as 1990-91, and is far ahead o f the other countries of South Asia in terms of having reached near-universal primary enrollment and completion. Sri Lanka has also attained the MD goal of gender parity in primary and secondary school enrollments, again having met this target as early as 1990-91. However, Sri Lanka faces considerable challenges in ensuring good quality primary education, with substantial shortfalls in cognitive achievement in the country as a whole. Further, Sri Lanka experiences sharp regional disparities in learning outcomes. Improving the quality of primary education in the country, with special emphasis on educationally disadvantaged areas, will require strategic policy development, effective service delivery and efficient investment of resources.

Sri Lanka : Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Sri Lanka, How Likely and What Will it Take to Reduce Poverty, Child Mortality and Malnutrition, and to Increase School Enrollment and Completion?

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