Although Sri Lanka has managed to reduce income poverty from 26.1 percent in 1990/91 to 4.1 percent by 2016, income inequality has remained unchanged for more than four decades. The richest 20 percent enjoy more than half the total household income of the country, while the poorest 20 percent get only 5 percent. The situation […]
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