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News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/14/sri-lanka-ruinous-tax-policies-stoke-inequality
Published on: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and contribute to chronic underfunding of education and other public services. The government should ...
News Sri Lanka » Uva » Education: How Low Taxes Drove Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and Squandered its Education Lead
News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/10/14/tax-giveaways-struggling-schools/how-low-taxes-drove-sri-lankas-economic-crisis
Published on: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Susikala was working as a daily wage earner at a flower garden in Hatton, a hilly area in central Sri Lanka, when in April 2022 the government defaulted on its debt. The default sent the economy into ...