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Dr Maneka Jayasinghe is currently a lecturer in Economics in the College of Business and Law. Her teaching areas include Economics, Business Statistics and Quantitative Methods. Her research interests include Feminist Economics, Consumer Demand Analysis, and Poverty and Income Inequality and her research mainly focuses on South Asia and Australia. She holds a PhD in Economics (Griffith University, Australia), Masters in Public Policy (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Bachelor of Arts in Economics (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka).
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poverty
Social Sciences
Sri Lanka
Social Sciences
female headed household
Earth & Environmental Sciences
economy
Social Sciences
food consumption
Social Sciences
economy of scale
Earth & Environmental Sciences
ethnicity
Earth & Environmental Sciences
vegetables
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Research Output 2016 2019
An intertemporal analysis of expenditure elasticities under three expenditure specifications for Sri Lanka
Jayasinghe, M., E. A. Selvanathan & Saroja Selvanathan, 4 Jun 2019, In : Applied Economics. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Elasticity
Sri Lanka
Expenditure
Household
Household expenditure
Dynamic trends in household poverty and inequality in Sri Lanka: do gender and ethnicity matter?
Jayasinghe, M., Jun 2019, In : Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. 24, 2, p. 208-223 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
female headed household
ethnicity
Sri Lanka
poverty
gender
Domestic technology, consumption economies of scale and poverty: evidence from Sri Lanka
Jayasinghe, M., Ratnasiri, S., Smith, C. & Chai, A., 2018, In : Applied Economics. 50, 16, p. 1777-1789 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Poverty
Household
Economies of scale
Sri Lanka
Technology adoption
Consumption Economies of Scale, Household Headship and Poverty: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Jayasinghe, M., Smith, C., Chai, A. & Ratnasiri, S., 2017, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Finance and Economics. Ly, P. T. M., Soukup, J., Dao, P. & Tuan, P. M. (eds.). Vietnam: Libuše Macáková - Melandrium, p. 179-193 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper published in Proceedings › Research › peer-review
Poverty
Household
Economies of scale
Headship
Sri Lanka
The power of the vegetable patch: How home-grown food helps large rural households achieve economies of scale & escape poverty
Jayasinghe, M., Chai, A., Ratnasiri, S. & Smith, C., Dec 2017, In : Food Policy. 73, p. 62-74 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
economies of scale
economy of scale
Poverty
poverty
vegetables