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Regional Consultation Seminar on South Asian Positions in the WTO Doha Round was Jointly organized by Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka and Consumer Unity & Trust Society [CUTS International], India. |
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| IPS was awarded a grant by the Poverty and Economic Policy Network (PEP) for a proposal on: “Will a Tax on Public Servants Improve Progressivity?” presented by Nisha Arunatilake at the 8th General Meeting of the Poverty and Economic Policy Research Network in Dakar, Senegal, during 14th to 18th June, 2010. | |||||
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Authors: Nisha Arunatilake with Priyanka Jayawardena A recent IPS study funded by the ADB finds that, to achieve the government policy objectives of full access to primary and secondary education, more needs to be done to improve service delivery to most vulnerable groups and to remote areas. The study finds that access to education is inequitable at all levels, although it has improved over time. The opportunity for education participation and the access to education decreases across class for higher levels of education. The government expenditure on general education is strongly progressive at the primary level. But expenditure on general education and on teacher salaries is only weakly progressive at other levels. For main out-of-pocket expenditure items on education, such as tuition, boarding fees, transport and stationery, the poor pay a higher percentage of their incomes. |
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| How Can Sri Lanka’s Integration with its Neighbours and the Wider Regional Economies be Improved? | |||||
Although the extent of Sri Lanka’s trade and investment relations links with South Asia and East Asia are still rather limited, they indicate both the potential and the manner in which future developments will occur in a rapidly integrating trading and investment environment in Asia. East Asia is a significant source of FDI to Sri Lanka – both in the early stages of concentration in the garments industry, and latterly diversifying into services related activities such as telecommunications. More recently, Sri Lanka’s economic relations with India have been transformed on the back of improved bilateral political relations between the two countries. Supporting such developments, Sri Lanka has already entered into several bilateral and regional trade agreements across South Asia whilst being a party to on-going negotiations on agreements that include countries of the East Asian region. |
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Weerakoon, D. (2009), “Sri Lanka”, in J. Francois, P. Rana and G. Wignaraja (eds.), National Strategies for Regional Integration: South and East Asian Case Studies, Manila: Asian Development Bank .http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ National-Strategies-Regional-Integration/default.asp |
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