A World Bank Intervention in the Sri Lankan Welfare Sector: The National Development Trust Fund |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economic Theory, Universitat de Barcelona, 08034 Barcelona, Spain;2. Complutense Institute for International Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28223 Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | In 1991 the World Bank moved to streamline the Sri Lankan welfare sector by funding a poverty alleviation project which promoted the role of non-government organization (NGOs) and decentralized government agencies and replaced traditional consumption-oriented transfers with an emphasis on household self-reliance through productive activity. The project's design was based on a model which depends for its success on key conditions—guaranteed political independence and a well-developed NGO sector—which did not exist in Sri Lanka in the early 1990s. Additional problems included management deficiencies and failure to provide key supports for production-related poverty reduction. |
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