CEPA’s objective in hosting the Open Forum on Poverty Series is to provide a platform for groups of professionals to enter into a discussion on the research/expertise shared by colleagues and to create a medium for knowledge dissemination. The thirty-fourth Open Forum hosted by CEPA focused on the new poverty statistics based on the Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) 2006/2007.

Mrs. Suranjana Vidyaratne, Director General of the Department of Census and Statistics presented the statistics and indicators of the HIES 2006/2007. Neranjana Gunetilleke, a Senior Professional of the Poverty Impact Monitoring Programme at CEPA made a comment on the statistics of the HIES. The discussion was chaired by Mohammed Munas, a Professional of CEPA’s Poverty and Conflict Programme.

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