Sri Lanka, Oct. 16 -- The Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 101-page report detailing how Sri Lanka's long-standing tax policies were a primary factor in the devastating 2022 economic crisis and have caused the chronic underfunding of essential public services, particularly education.

The organization states that the current system disproportionately favors wealthy individuals and corporations while failing to generate adequate revenue to fulfill human rights obligations.

The report, "Tax Giveaways, Struggling Schools: How Low Taxes Drove Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis and Squandered its Education Lead," describes how a reliance on regressive taxes-such as those on goods and services, which account for about 80% of revenue and hit the po...