Bucking the Trend: How Sri Lanka has achieved good health at low cost — Challenges and policy lessons for the 21st century

Sri Lanka is one of the few low-income countries to have achieved remarkable progress in its health and social welfare provision. It provides free, good-quality healthcare for its people at a relatively low cost. Child and maternal mortality rates are low, and life expectancy is high.

This report looks at what can be learned from Sri Lanka's approach to development, for the benefit of children elsewhere.