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Based on the data available in the 2011 Human Development Report (HDR), among the south Asian countries, Sri Lanka is the top performer on all four indices — the Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality Adjusted HDI, the Gender Inequality Index (GII) and the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index. With an HDI rank of 97, it is among the top three in the medium human development category and is four notches above China at 101, says Dr. K. Seeta Prabhu, UNDP India Senior Advisor in an interview with The Business Standard on November 6, 2011. Responding to the question: “Which country do you count as a success story of this decade? What can India learn from it?”, Dr. Prabhu notes that Sri Lanka has low levels of income poverty (head count ratio of 8.9 per cent for the year 2009-10) and multi-dimensional poverty. “The multi-dimensional poverty headcount ratio as reported in the HDR 2011 is 5.3 per cent, lower than most south Asian countries”, she says.
Dr. Prabhu also notes that Sri Lanka is far ahead of India in healthcare. India’s MMR in 2008 at 230 (number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) is several times higher than Sri Lanka’s MMR at 39.
“The country suffers the lowest loss in HDI due to inequalities in the south Asia region and has displayed considerable improvement in the GII and the HDI, despite decades of conflict and modest economic growth. We need to look at the strategies that caused this”, she further adds.
Click here to access the full interview with Dr. K Seeta Prabhu :
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/qa-dr-k-seeta-prabhu-undp-india-senior-advisor/454648/
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