A new report by the Institute of Development Studies, a UK-based think tank, has placed Sri Lanka as the 5th poorest country in the world in terms of food affordability - Numbers.lk

The report, which was compiled through a publicly available global cost-of-living database, Numbeo, was used in creating a ‘cost of food basics’ analysis that compares the monthly minimum recommended spend on food per adult and monthly average wage in 107 countries across the world.

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06 August, 2021 | 09:42 a.m.

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