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Regional cooperation in achieving better health outcomes in South Asia
(Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), 2024-06) Tilakaratna, Ganga
South Asia is among the regions with the highest maternal and child mortality rates,
the lowest life expectancy at birth, and the highest incidence of infectious diseases
like TB. The government spending on the health sector has also been below 1 per
cent for many countries in the South Asian region making it more challenging to
achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
Despite relatively poor performance in health outcomes at the regional level, the
performance has been somewhat uneven across the region, and country-level factors
that have led to such differential outcomes also vary from one country to another
Family income does not necessarily lead to a holistic e-learning experience during COVID-19: a study in Sri Lanka
(2024-11-29) Senarath,Neranjan ; Dedunupitiya,Wathsala ; IIangarathna, Gayanthi ; Thilakasiri, Isuru ; Samarakoon,Bhagya ; Ramanayake, Lakshitha ; Godaliyadda, Roshan ; Ekanayake, Parakrama ; Herath, Vijitha ; Pinnawala, Mallika ; Yatigammana, Sakunthala ; Ekanayake, Janaka ; Dharmarathne, Samath ; Tilakaratne, Ganga
The COVID-19 outbreak caused a disruption of the conventional education system worldwide.
This resulted in a shift towards online mode of delivery. This study analyzed the
pandemic’s effect on the education of students from diverse socioeconomic groups in Sri
Lanka. The required data for this study was collected through a nation-wide field survey,
covering 3020 households. The factor analysis (FA) performed identified seven significant
factors. Thereafter, K-means and spectral clustering were used to cluster the population in
order to identify the socioeconomic groups that were impacted in a similar manner. This
resulted in the identification of three clusters whose demographics and relationship to the
extracted factors were extensively analyzed and interpreted. The study concluded that students
in high-income households were more emotionally affected, whereas students in lowincome
households were mostly affected by a lack of resources. The study also concluded
that students from mid-income households were the least affected emotionally.
Reframing South Asian regional cooperation in the new context : National and global dimensions
(Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), 2024)
Sri Lanka's female migrant workers: flying abroad on borrowed time
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2023-11-10) Weeraddana, Manisha
Sri Lanka's debt restructuring roadmap:following the evidence
(Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 0002-07-23) Weerakon, Dr.Dushni