{"id":13469,"date":"2021-03-30T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2021-03-30T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T04:51:10","slug":"absolute-poverty-in-the-country-is-ten-times-more-a-new-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"Absolute poverty in the country is ten times more\u2013 a new revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Sirimevan Colombage reveals that about 40.4% of the total population of the country suffers from poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite data from the Department of Census and Statistics the rate is 4.1%, according to world-accepted criteria, it is about 40.4% points out Professor Colombage.<br \/>He revealed that the Department of Census and Statistics calculates the rate based on consumer access, where the daily income of those living below the poverty line is estimated at US$ 3.2.<br \/>However, according to world-accepted criteria, those earning less than US$ 5.5 a day live in poverty. As a result, about 9.6 million of the country&#8217;s population is living in poverty. The professor has given this information to the Daily FT newspaper.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-13469' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=13469&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-13469' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-13469' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-13469' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-13469'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-13469' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-13469 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Sirimevan Colombage reveals that about 40.4% of the total population of the country suffers from poverty. Despite data from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}