Centre for Poverty Analysis

CEPA was contracted by Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) - Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) to carry out a study on testing the missing dimensions of poverty in urban, rural and estate communities in Sri Lanka. The objectives of this study are to test the validity and relevance of the indicators and tools that have been developed within each of the OPHI’s Missing Dimensions of Poverty – employment, empowerment, physical safety, ability to go about shame, and meaning and value, to determine, where applicable, alternative indicators that could be used to capture these dimensions and to suggest alterations and improvements to the methodology being evolved for developing comparable indicators of these dimensions. CEPA’s aims to bring the discussion of Missing Dimensions of Poverty in to the local and global debate of poverty.