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Multilevel Analysis of Urban Poverty: Evidence from Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Damayanthi,B.W.R.
dc.contributor.author Premarathna,G.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-03T04:18:52Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-03T04:18:52Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.identifier.citation Damayanthi, B.W.R., Premarathna, G. (2015). Multilevel Analysis of Urban Poverty: Evidence from Sri Lanka. Proceedings of South Asian Economic Development International Conference from the Perspective of Young Researchers, South Asian University, New Delhi. en_US, si_LK
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/3585
dc.description.abstract Urban poverty in Sri Lanka has long been neglected and given less priority in policy interventions and academic contributions following favorable nominal poverty statistics which underscore the need for urgent attention in matters pertaining to urban livelihood. The negligence of the urban sector and the urban poor for many decades has created a severe dearth of academic contributions. Thus the main objective of this paper is to void some of these knowledge gaps which are vital to be addressed at the current development phase in the country. This study utilizes multilevel models to analyze poverty variations in the urban sector taking both individual and contextual levels simultaneously. It was found that about 11 per cent of total error variance of poverty was attributed to the contextual level. While age, gender, family size, education level and employment status significantly contributed at the individual level; female labor force participation, magnitudes of main employment sectors: agriculture, service and industry were significant at the contextual level. Allowing the risk of poverty to be varied across districts, a considerable variance was found to be evident though there was no evidence of significant variations in the patterns of covariates. Hence this study suggests that poverty alleviation policies should focus on multilateral way. en_US, si_LK
dc.language.iso en_US en_US, si_LK
dc.publisher South Asian University, New Delhi en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Urban poverty en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Asset index en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Multilevel mixed models en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Multilevel logistic models en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Multilevel analysis en_US, si_LK
dc.subject Sri Lanka en_US, si_LK
dc.title Multilevel Analysis of Urban Poverty: Evidence from Sri Lanka en_US, si_LK
dc.type Article en_US, si_LK


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