Health & Education Research series No.200 Copyright © June 2019 Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka ISBN 000-000-0000-00-0 National Library and Documentation Services Board -Cataloguing-In-Publication Data Ashani Abayasekara Sri Lanka’s Grade Five Scholarship Examination: An Evaluation of its Effectiveness and Relevance Left Behind in Sri Lanka - Colombo: Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, 2019 36p.; 28 cm. - (Health & Education Research Series; No. 200) ISBN 000-000-0000-00-0 i. 331.544095493 DDC23 ii. Title iii. Series 1. xxxxx 2. xxxxxxx Ashani Abayasekara is Research officer at IPS with research interests in labour economics, economics of education, development economics, and microeconometrics. She holds a BA in Economics with First Class Honours from the University of Peradeniya and a Please address orders to: Masters in International and Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Development Economics from the Australian National University. 100/20, Independence Avenue, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
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