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Policy roundtable, Colombo

Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 1:30pm  2:30pm This half-day roundtable introduced the research project to an audience of academics, practitioners and policymakers. The wider policy implications of the project and how it related to ongoing policy debates in Sri Lanka were discussed.


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The project is carried out collaboratively by researchers and practitioners from the School of Oriental and African Studies (UK), University of Bath (UK), Centre for Poverty Analysis (Sri Lanka), Martin Chautari (Nepal) and International Alert.

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