Sri Lanka's Lost Decade: A Decade of Diverging Household Incomes

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By Dr Pulasthi Amarasinghe, Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) Nearly a decade after 2016, are Sri Lankan households better off? The newly released preliminary results of the Household Income and Expenditure Sur.
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- —By Dr Pulasthi Amarasinghe, Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) Nearly a decade after 2016, are Sri Lankan households better off? The newly released preliminary results of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2025 provide an important insight into this question.
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