Tag: Sri Lanka’s Lost Decade: A Decade of Diverging Household Incomes

By Dr Pulasthi Amarasinghe, Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) Nearly a decade after 2016, are Sri Lankan households better off? The newly released preliminary results of the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2025 provide an important insight into this question. Despite substantial increases in nominal incomes, the typical Sri […]