Protecting Poor and Vulnerable Sri Lankans During an Economic Crisis : A Tough Balancing Act for Fiscal Policy (anglais)

This note examines how recent fiscal reforms have affected household incomes in Sri Lanka. It assesses their impact on poverty and inequality separately from other welfare-losses-inducing shocks experienced in the past five years. After years of fiscal mismanagement and a series of economic shocks, debt levels became unsustainable, leading to default in April 2022, which plunged Sri Lanka into the worst economic crisis in the country’s recent history...
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INFORMATION

  • Marta Schoch;
    Tiloka Sunayani De Silva;
    Ian William Houts;
    Nandini Krishnan;

  • 2024/09/18

  • Rapport

  • 193603

  • 1

  • Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka,

  • Asie du Sud,

  • 2024/09/18

  • Disclosed

  • Protecting Poor and Vulnerable Sri Lankans During an Economic Crisis : A Tough Balancing Act for Fiscal Policy

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