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Janasaviya

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Janasaviya was a poverty reduction program in Sri Lanka. It was introduced in 1989 by the government of Ranasinghe Premadasa,[1] and was a lead program of his government.[2] In 1995, under the new president Chandrika Kumaratunga, it was replaced by the Samurdhi program.[3]

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  1. ^ Marasinghe, M.L. (1993). "Poverty Elimination Through Poverty Alleviation: The Jansaviya Programme of Sri Lanka for National Development". Third World Legal Studies. 12. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. ^ Stokke, Kristian (1995). "Poverty as politics: the Janasaviya Poverty Alleviation Programme in Sri Lanka". Norwegian Journal of Geography. 49 (3): 123–135. doi:10.1080/00291959508543417. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. ^ Ranatunga, R.V.S.P.K; Priyanath, H.M.S. (June 2023). "Do Transaction Costs Avert Livelihoods? An Empirical Study of Samurdhi Beneficiaries in Sri Lanka" (PDF). Colombo Economic Journal. 1 (1): 1–26. Retrieved 19 September 2023.