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Issues in peace: special reference to poverty and development in contemporary world
(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Peiris, M.J.D.
An issue is a matter of concern or of interest. Often people have different opinions about an issue and will discuss or argue about it in order to find a solution. Sometimes an issue can have a particular focus. For example, issues may have a political, social, environmental or economic focus.Therefore, Issues can also occur on different scales. When we talk about a global issue, we are usually referring to something that affects a number of countries and populations. It is an issue that affect upon or is important to the global community that could be a threat for peace.The idea of issues that are truly global in scale is new to us. It emerged late in the 20th century, perhaps when humans first saw images of the Earth from space a small blue-green planet devoid of boundaries and arbitrary political divisions. Regardless of their novelty, global issues are so important that they might literally determine the future of the human species. Moreover, global issues affect virtually all social, environmental, economic, health, and security concerns. Yet, those concerns are, in themselves, global issues. There are number of global issues have been identified yet, this article provides a framework of poverty and developmentwith regard to issues in peace.
How to sight the Holy Grail of Development: Two Development Tales of Sri Lanka and Malaysia
(Department of Economics, University of Kelaniya, 2016) Priyantha, R.; Dickwella, R.; Samarakoon, A.
The grammar of development always relates to the question words of who, what, and how. Contemporary uni-polar world order has paid more attention on the ways of developing all countries equally. The United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Work Bank have become the entrepreneurs of the international development project that has focused on establishment of a universal development system. However, the current development discourse is still in a struggle to conceptualize and map out the development policies to accomplish development ends. The waves of development discourse emphasis the changing pattern of development and reduce rich-poor gap. Bridging the gap of rich and poor is a dilemma as of poor understanding of root causes of underdeveloped. The objective of this article is to understand richpoor gap and the role of internal and external structure to exterminate this gap. Sri Lanka and Malaysia are the selected case studies of the present study. The case studies are to understand the lessons learnt of development. One of the key findings of this study is that the absence of consensus on development and development alienation are direct causes to fail the mega level development policies that has caused countries to stagnate in the same level of poverty. The interests of entrepreneurs of development project on capital accumulation is another crucial factor of widened gap between rich and the poor. Bad governance, corruption, political instability, popular politics and consumer politics, connectivity of global capital to local elites and economic policies to maintain the industrial reserved army have further deteriorated balance development both at national and international levels.
Looking at rural poverty and aid effectiveness through gender: a case of rural Sri Lanka
(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2014) Rodrigo, Chatura
Sri Lanka is a middle income country with a gross domestic production of about $ 50 billion. The human development index places Sri Lanka at the 97th position. Gender Inequality Index (GII) rank Sri Lanka at 74. The Gini index has reduced from 46 in 1995 to 40.3 in 2007; however, the economic inequalities are severe among rural areas. There is a significant discrepancy between the gender in terms of economic opportunities and economic status. The majority of Sri Lanka‟s workforce resides in rural areas and is engaged in agricultural activities. A significant share of the agricultural production is still used for self-sufficiency. Economic performance and poverty are not evenly spread across the nine provinces in Sri Lanka and serious regional disparities exist. Despite the many interventions by donor community and the government, there is a growing debate on the effectiveness of these aids on reducing the poverty of the rural Sri Lanka and the disparities among male and female headed households. This study looked at Uva and North Central provinces where the poverty rates are extremely high while donor interventions on poverty reduction are high as well. Results have suggested that while the short term livelihood interventions have been successful the long term interventions have not created significant impacts in reducing the poverty. There are disparities among the women headed households in receiving the livelihood supports both short and long term. While male headed households are more successful in utilizing long term livelihood support to come out of poverty, female headed households have failed to do so.

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