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Sri Lanka Social Services

A Review of Recent Trends and Issue

Publisher: The World Bank

Place of Publish: Washington, D.C.

Year: 1998

Page Numbers: 29

Acc. No: 844-S

Category: Soft Documents

Languages: English

This report, which complements the Economic Update prepared for the May 1998 Development Forum, provides a preliminary analysis of the situation in the three areas and lays out the key issues facing the Government. The main theme of the report is that the enlightened social policies of the 1940-60s that led to astonishing progress in health and education in Sri Lanka, lost much of their momentum in later years.