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As Sri Lanka’s population ages, many older people in remote hill villages are being left without adequate support, services, or income security.
Adopt a full lifecycle approach to plastic management, backed by strong enforcement and circular economy solutions.
Explore equity, quasi-equity, and other non-debt assistance and structural reforms to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and other shocks.
Introduce interventions that address childcare issues and employment segregation.
Leveraging technological innovations can help overcome growth constraints and increase agriculture’s economic contribution.
A data-driven roadmap integrates governance, technology, and finance to help Sri Lanka’s water utility adapt to climate risks and lower emissions.
Within a week of installing environmental nudges, handwashing with soap among students rose to 61% from 15%.
Sri Lanka’s Aswesuma program can better support the vulnerable by refining targeting, improving data, and aligning aid with poverty reduction.
Debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps provide Sri Lanka with a practical solution to ease debt, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity.
Improvements in pipeline infrastructure and better customer metering led to significant nonrevenue water reduction and an increase in revenue.