Rajith Lakshman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4509224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajith Lakshman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajith |
| FAMILY NAME | Lakshman |
| SIGNATURE | LAKSHMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8178-9223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Intersectional inequalities in healthcare utilisation in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Introduction Residents of informal settlements face significant intersectional inequalities, due to the overlapping and compounding effects of multiple social factors. This study aims to explore how these intersecting social factors, identified by community members, combine to shape household-level inequalities healthcare utilisation (HU) among residents of informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Methods This study employed participatory …
The Economic Burden of Healthcare Utilization
Migrant digital placemaking for wellbeing
This article analyses migrants’ use of social media and considers their relation to placemaking and urban wellbeing. It develops an easy to replicate experimental methodology drawing on netnography techniques to analyse Facebook group activity by Latin-American migrants in and on their way to London. Findings indicate that Facebook offers a multitude of public spaces facilitating mundane activities that are significantly generative of material, r…
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing
Cities and towns are critical geographies of refuge for a globally unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people. Yet urban processes also expose these groups and the local urban poor to recurrent displacements. While such experiences are shared, studies often treat these populations as distinct. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of displaceability, this paper systematically reviews and synthesizes a global literature on diversely displaced peopl…
Gender and Forced Displacement in Humanitarian Policy Discourse
Executive Summary This paper reports on a study that examines how gender has been referenced in United Nations (UN), supranational and state documents on forced migration over the past 40 years. It is motivated by the premise that humanitarian protection discourses reflect broader institutional priorities and ideologies and may therefore expose gaps that reveal the relative importance given to the category of gender. The evidence presented below …
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to promote accountability. While subjected to important technical and political critiques, the policy impact of ‘indicators’ is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Suitable evaluative methods are in their infancy. This article adopts an innovative process tracing analysis to assess the policy i…
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective
For almost a decade, Colombo has been the site of a massive urban regeneration programme driven by the public and the private sectors. One of the main components of this regeneration programme has been the involuntary acquisition of land from slum communities and subsequent resettlement of slum dwellers in multi-storied housing complexes. How does such rapid resettlement in high-rise apartments impact the slum dwellers who are subjected to such t…
Equate and Conflate
As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition. We test the hypothesis that commitment to hunger reduction is empirically different from commitment to reducing undernutrition through expert surveys in five high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzani…
Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger
Responding to security threats
Populations affected by violent conflicts often withstand threats to their security as well as threats to their livelihoods. Their response to the former threats nontrivially affects their response to the latter threats, and vice versa. This paper examines the interplay between protection and livelihood strategies using a sample of households selected from the Anuradhapura district of Sri Lanka. The fieldwork for this study was completed in 2008,…
Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households
Journal Article Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households: A Mixed Method Analysis with a Microeconomic Touch Get access Kopalapillai Amirthalingam, Kopalapillai Amirthalingam Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rajith W. D. Lakshman Rajith W. D. Lakshman Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works…
Financing of internal displacement
This paper investigates how internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, financed their first year of displacement. We conducted extensive fieldwork in August 2007 in numerous welfare centres in Batticaloa that have received persons displaced from the Mutur divisional secretariat (DS) in the Trincomalee district. The sample was selected from the village of Sampur in Mutur DS. The displaced from Sampur are of Tamil origin and our …
Displaced Livelihoods in Sri Lanka
This paper investigates how internal displacement affects the livelihoods of the displaced, using a group of IDPs currently living in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. These Tamil IDPs have come from Sampur which is located in Trincomalee, in eastern Sri Lanka. As expected, displacement has had a statistically significant negative impact on livelihoods. However, the impact varies among four categories of livelihoods identified by us: Type I Labour…
Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households
Journal Article Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households: A Mixed Method Analysis with a Microeconomic Touch Get access Kopalapillai Amirthalingam, Kopalapillai Amirthalingam Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rajith W. D. Lakshman Rajith W. D. Lakshman Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works…
Displaced Livelihoods in Sri Lanka
This paper investigates how internal displacement affects the livelihoods of the displaced, using a group of IDPs currently living in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. These Tamil IDPs have come from Sampur which is located in Trincomalee, in eastern Sri Lanka. As expected, displacement has had a statistically significant negative impact on livelihoods. However, the impact varies among four categories of livelihoods identified by us: Type I Labour…
Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective
For almost a decade, Colombo has been the site of a massive urban regeneration programme driven by the public and the private sectors. One of the main components of this regeneration programme has been the involuntary acquisition of land from slum communities and subsequent resettlement of slum dwellers in multi-storied housing complexes. How does such rapid resettlement in high-rise apartments impact the slum dwellers who are subjected to such t…
Equate and Conflate
As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition. We test the hypothesis that commitment to hunger reduction is empirically different from commitment to reducing undernutrition through expert surveys in five high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzani…
Financing of internal displacement
This paper investigates how internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, financed their first year of displacement. We conducted extensive fieldwork in August 2007 in numerous welfare centres in Batticaloa that have received persons displaced from the Mutur divisional secretariat (DS) in the Trincomalee district. The sample was selected from the village of Sampur in Mutur DS. The displaced from Sampur are of Tamil origin and our …
Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to promote accountability. While subjected to important technical and political critiques, the policy impact of ‘indicators’ is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Suitable evaluative methods are in their infancy. This article adopts an innovative process tracing analysis to assess the policy i…
Gender and Forced Displacement in Humanitarian Policy Discourse
Executive Summary This paper reports on a study that examines how gender has been referenced in United Nations (UN), supranational and state documents on forced migration over the past 40 years. It is motivated by the premise that humanitarian protection discourses reflect broader institutional priorities and ideologies and may therefore expose gaps that reveal the relative importance given to the category of gender. The evidence presented below …
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Responding to security threats
Populations affected by violent conflicts often withstand threats to their security as well as threats to their livelihoods. Their response to the former threats nontrivially affects their response to the latter threats, and vice versa. This paper examines the interplay between protection and livelihood strategies using a sample of households selected from the Anuradhapura district of Sri Lanka. The fieldwork for this study was completed in 2008,…
Displaced Livelihoods in Sri Lanka
This paper investigates how internal displacement affects the livelihoods of the displaced, using a group of IDPs currently living in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka. These Tamil IDPs have come from Sampur which is located in Trincomalee, in eastern Sri Lanka. As expected, displacement has had a statistically significant negative impact on livelihoods. However, the impact varies among four categories of livelihoods identified by us: Type I Labour…
Financing of internal displacement
This paper investigates how internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, financed their first year of displacement. We conducted extensive fieldwork in August 2007 in numerous welfare centres in Batticaloa that have received persons displaced from the Mutur divisional secretariat (DS) in the Trincomalee district. The sample was selected from the village of Sampur in Mutur DS. The displaced from Sampur are of Tamil origin and our …
Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households
Journal Article Impact of Displacement on Women and Female-headed Households: A Mixed Method Analysis with a Microeconomic Touch Get access Kopalapillai Amirthalingam, Kopalapillai Amirthalingam Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rajith W. D. Lakshman Rajith W. D. Lakshman Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Search for other works…
Measuring the commitment to reduce hunger
Responding to security threats
Populations affected by violent conflicts often withstand threats to their security as well as threats to their livelihoods. Their response to the former threats nontrivially affects their response to the latter threats, and vice versa. This paper examines the interplay between protection and livelihood strategies using a sample of households selected from the Anuradhapura district of Sri Lanka. The fieldwork for this study was completed in 2008,…
Equate and Conflate
As political commitment is an essential ingredient for elevating food and nutrition security onto policy agendas, commitment metrics have proliferated. Many conflate government commitment to fight hunger with combating undernutrition. We test the hypothesis that commitment to hunger reduction is empirically different from commitment to reducing undernutrition through expert surveys in five high-burden countries: Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal, Tanzani…
Urban Resettlement in Colombo from a Wellbeing Perspective
For almost a decade, Colombo has been the site of a massive urban regeneration programme driven by the public and the private sectors. One of the main components of this regeneration programme has been the involuntary acquisition of land from slum communities and subsequent resettlement of slum dwellers in multi-storied housing complexes. How does such rapid resettlement in high-rise apartments impact the slum dwellers who are subjected to such t…
Wellbeing and urban governance
We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements in three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) • Wellbeing priorities are similar across settlements but satisfaction with achieved wellbeing outcomes differs by site and by socio-economic groups • People's subjective assessments of how they fare on wellbeing priorities are consistent with relevant objective indicators of their wellbeing • Wellbeing outcomes a…
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to promote accountability. While subjected to important technical and political critiques, the policy impact of ‘indicators’ is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Suitable evaluative methods are in their infancy. This article adopts an innovative process tracing analysis to assess the policy i…
Gender and Forced Displacement in Humanitarian Policy Discourse
Executive Summary This paper reports on a study that examines how gender has been referenced in United Nations (UN), supranational and state documents on forced migration over the past 40 years. It is motivated by the premise that humanitarian protection discourses reflect broader institutional priorities and ideologies and may therefore expose gaps that reveal the relative importance given to the category of gender. The evidence presented below …
Migrant digital placemaking for wellbeing
This article analyses migrants’ use of social media and considers their relation to placemaking and urban wellbeing. It develops an easy to replicate experimental methodology drawing on netnography techniques to analyse Facebook group activity by Latin-American migrants in and on their way to London. Findings indicate that Facebook offers a multitude of public spaces facilitating mundane activities that are significantly generative of material, r…
Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing
Cities and towns are critical geographies of refuge for a globally unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people. Yet urban processes also expose these groups and the local urban poor to recurrent displacements. While such experiences are shared, studies often treat these populations as distinct. Drawing on Yiftachel’s notion of displaceability, this paper systematically reviews and synthesizes a global literature on diversely displaced peopl…
The Economic Burden of Healthcare Utilization
Intersectional inequalities in healthcare utilisation in informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Introduction Residents of informal settlements face significant intersectional inequalities, due to the overlapping and compounding effects of multiple social factors. This study aims to explore how these intersecting social factors, identified by community members, combine to shape household-level inequalities healthcare utilisation (HU) among residents of informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Methods This study employed participatory …
Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Socioeconomics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (4 works) · Livelihood (4 works)