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The Pains of Labor in the Post-Civil War Development in the City of Jaffna, Northern Province, Sri Lanka

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Muttukrishna Sarvananthan at Point Pedro Institute of Development
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan
  • Point Pedro Institute of Development
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This study is based on a survey of working conditions of labourers in the Jaffna Town, Northern Province, Sri Lanka. The objectives of this study are to understand and document the legal, livelihood, and social conditions of the working people in Jaffna town six years after the military conclusion of the civil war in May 2009, and sensitize the governments (national, provincial, and local), private businesses, non-governmental organizations, international development partners, and other stakeholders on the protection and promotion of the welfare of the working people in post-civil war economic and social development in Jaffna and beyond.
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... Notwithstanding all the state-sponsored optimism, evidence that post-war development initiatives in Sri Lanka have in fact contributed to employment generation is extremely sparse. A limited number of studies present evidence that tourism development, particularly in the war-affected North and East, has not managed to create sustainable jobs for people from war-affected communities (Sarvananthan, 2016). ...
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) in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Muttukrishna Sarvananthan has been an external examiner of a Ph
  • Jan 2005
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Further, he has been an academic tutor, supervisor, and guest lecturer on conflict resolution and security studies for the University of Bradford (2005/6) in Sri Lanka and the United Nations University for Peace (2005-2008) in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Muttukrishna Sarvananthan has been an external examiner of a Ph.D. Thesis on Entrepreneurship in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka submitted to the University of New South Wales in Canberra in 2015 and on the Shadow Economy in Sri Lanka submitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in 2006.
Master of Science in Development Planning and Administration at the Department of Social Policy and Social Planning
  • Jan 1986
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan earned a Doctorate in Development Economics at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Wales, Swansea in 1999, Master of Science in Development Planning and Administration at the Department of Social Policy and Social Planning, University of Bristol in 1991, Master of Science (Economics) in Economic Development at the Department of Economics, University of Salford in 1989, and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics at the Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 1986. Besides, he has successfully completed teaching skills for graduate tutors course at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1998.
South Asian Survey (Sage) His research note titled " Recovering from the Tsunami: People " s Experiences in Sri Lanka
  • Oct 2008
GeoJournal (Springer), Indian Journal of Regional Science (Kolkata), Journal of Contemporary Asia (Routledge), South Asia Economic Journal (Sage), South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (Sage), South Asian Survey (Sage), Sri Lanka Economic Journal (Colombo), Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (Colombo), and Third World Quarterly (Routledge). His research note titled " Recovering from the Tsunami: People " s Experiences in Sri Lanka " in Contemporary South Asia, Vol.16 No.3, September 2008 was amongst the top twenty articles downloaded from the publisher " s own portal during 2008.
His survey results contested the causes of boat migration (to Australia from Sri Lanka) attributed by an Australian refugee advocate in 2013 and the Australian Government toughened its policy on boat migration in the same year
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-015-9637-3 His survey results contested the causes of boat migration (to Australia from Sri Lanka) attributed by an Australian refugee advocate in 2013 and the Australian Government toughened its policy on boat migration in the same year.
He exposed and argued the case against military enterprises in Northern Sri Lanka in 2010 and the military expenditure in the Northern Provincial economy was cut-back to second place in 2012 as a proportion of the provincial economy for the first time in decades
  • Jan 2006
http://www.epw.in/discussion/boat-migration-australia.html-0 He exposed and argued the case against military enterprises in Northern Sri Lanka in 2010 and the military expenditure in the Northern Provincial economy was cut-back to second place in 2012 as a proportion of the provincial economy for the first time in decades. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09584935.2011.565313 He logically predicted, backed-up by empirical evidence, the demise of the LTTE in 2006 and it happened in 2009. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436590701507628#.U8nX9kDm5eY He proposed a cap on the annual Government Budget deficit in 2001-2002 and the Fiscal (Management)
University of Salford in 1989, and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics at the Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 1986. Besides, he has successfully completed teaching skills for graduate tutors course at the University of Wales
  • Jan 1998
Economics, University of Salford in 1989, and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics at the Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi in 1986. Besides, he has successfully completed teaching skills for graduate tutors course at the University of Wales, Swansea in 1998.
His research note titled "Recovering from the Tsunami: People"s Experiences in Sri Lanka
  • Sep 2008
Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), Faultlines: Writings on Conflict and Resolution (New Delhi), GeoJournal (Springer), Indian Journal of Regional Science (Kolkata), Journal of Contemporary Asia (Routledge), South Asia Economic Journal (Sage), South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management (Sage), South Asian Survey (Sage), Sri Lanka Economic Journal (Colombo), Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences (Colombo), and Third World Quarterly (Routledge). His research note titled "Recovering from the Tsunami: People"s Experiences in Sri Lanka" in Contemporary South Asia, Vol.16 No.3, September 2008 was amongst the top twenty articles downloaded from the publisher"s own portal during 2008.