Ada Derana (YouTube, Sri Lanka) featured IFPRI work in this news report on the national Building Resilient Inclusive Growth and Holistic Transformation (BRIGHT) survery in Sri Lanka conducted by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) under the CGIAR system. The news report emphasized the need to focus on data pertaining to real wages and the need to adopt pro-poor policies in the nation’s attempt to accelerate growth.
“Policy is a powerful lever,” said Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy and Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy. “We really look at bringing to policy spaces such as this to set agendas, to identify entry points for effective actions, to test solutions and the scaling of those solutions, and to look at a wide range of governance and financing options that help deliver the kinds of policy efforts and instruments that are needed to create the change that we want to see in this world.”
“One thing I would really urge the government, civil society, and the press to do is to monitor real wages data,” said Derek Headey, Senior Research Fellow in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. “Real wages are a very good predictor of incomes and poverty