Vocational Training Is Key to Ending Poverty - Chathuranga

Vocational training is key to ending poverty - Chathuranga

Deputy Minister Chathuranga Abeysinghe Vocational training is the only real solution to ending poverty in Sri Lanka, Deputy Minister of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Chathuranga Abeysinghe said. In a Facebook post published today (July 10), the Deputy Minister highlighted the need to uplift the 30% of Sri Lankans who live below the poverty line. He said that many people in society who are now in a position to pay taxes have forgotten…

Sri Lanka back to its high poverty levels • Sri Lanka Brief

Sri Lanka’s estimated poverty (share of the population living on less than $3.65 a day) remains stubbornly high, affecting as much as a quarter of the population in 2024, and twice as high as in 2021. The reversal in poverty reduction gains during the crisis has taken Sri Lanka back to its high poverty levels of the early 2000s, finds a new study by the Centre for Poverty Analysis(CEPA). The report, launched on Tuesday in Colombo, says: The econ…