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About Ganga Tilakaratna

Ganga Tilakaratna is a Research Fellow and Head of Poverty and Social Welfare Policy Research of the Institute of Policy studies of Sri Lanka. She holds a PhD from the University of Manchester and MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, UK She can be reached at ganga@ips.lk

Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Development Act: Improving Institutional Coherence for SDGs

By Ganga Tilakaratna and Chinthani Sooriyamudali2019-04-12T15:00:06+00:00July 11, 2018|

Improving institutional coherence is key to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Development Act came into effect [...]

National Level Implications of SDG Implementation: The Case of Sri Lanka

By Ganga Tilakaratna, Wimal Nanayakkara, Sunimalee Madurawala, Suwendrani Jayaratne and Kanchana Wickramasinghe2019-02-28T18:21:46+00:00March 12, 2017|

Sri Lanka is one of the signatories of the UN mandate on Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable [...]

From MDGs to Post-MDGs: Some Lessons from Sri Lanka

By Ganga Tilakaratna2019-01-06T22:27:04+00:00August 14, 2014|

First Posted by post2015 ⋅ May 8, 2014 Sri Lanka has made significant progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It has achieved [...]

Social Protection and MDGs in Sri Lanka: Implications for the Post-2015 Agenda

By Ganga Tilakaratna2019-02-28T17:52:12+00:00May 22, 2014|

[row][third_paragraph] [/third_paragraph][paragraph_right] The paper highlights the role of social protection in achieving MDGs. The Sri Lankan experience demonstrates that social [...]