Janasaviya
Janasaviya was a poverty reduction program in Sri Lanka. It was introduced in 1989 by the government of Ranasinghe Premadasa,[1] and was a lead program of his government.[2] In 1995, under the new president Chandrika Kumaratunga, it was replaced by the Samurdhi program.[3]
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Notes[edit]
- ^ Marasinghe, M.L. (1993). "Poverty Elimination Through Poverty Alleviation: The Jansaviya Programme of Sri Lanka for National Development". Third World Legal Studies. 12. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Stokke, Kristian (1995). "Poverty as politics: the Janasaviya Poverty Alleviation Programme in Sri Lanka". Norwegian Journal of Geography. 49 (3): 123–135. doi:10.1080/00291959508543417. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ Ranatunga, R.V.S.P.K; Priyanath, H.M.S. (June 2023). "Do Transaction Costs Avert Livelihoods? An Empirical Study of Samurdhi Beneficiaries in Sri Lanka" (PDF). Colombo Economic Journal. 1 (1): 1–26. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
External links[edit]
- "Janasaviya, Samurdhi and now ‘Aswesuma’", editorial, Daily Mirror, 17 May 2023
- "Sri Lanka’s welfare programmes: Plagued by inefficiencies and irregularities" by Tanya Shan, The Morning, 8 July 2023
- Department of the Commissioner General of Samurdhi
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