The 5th International Conference on Poverty and Sustainable Development 2018 (ICPSD 2018) will be held on 6th and 7th December 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka under the theme “Poverty Eradication- SDG 1 Only by breaking barriers for integration”. It will bring together academics, scholars and researchers in the field, interested in poverty eradication and sustainable development and they will focus on topics such as general issues regarding poverty and social exclusion, poverty and social exclusion, special issues regarding immigration, emigration and refugees