Social protection and the MDGs in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.authorTilakaratna, Ganga
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-12T07:10:10Z
dc.date.available2023-07-12T07:10:10Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe role of social protection in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been widely recognised. The Sri Lankan experience demonstrates that social protection policies and programmes carried out by the successive governments over decades have helped make substantial progress on many goals. The importance of social protection goes beyond MDGs. The issues of ageing population, informalisation of work, low female labour force participation, and increasing vulnerability to shocks also stress the need for comprehensive social protection systems. Social protection has to be a key element of the post-2015 development agenda – either as a goal, or as an instrument to achieve several goalsen_US
dc.identifier.issn23079827
dc.identifier.urihttp://econspace.ips.lk/handle/789/4493
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouthern Voice o post-MDG international Development Goalsen_US
dc.subjectSocial protectionen_US
dc.subjectMDGen_US
dc.subjectSri Lankaen_US
dc.titleSocial protection and the MDGs in Sri Lankaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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