Understanding Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka: Evidence from 2002 to 2012/13

Ceriani, Lidia; Comboni, Maria Gabriela Inchauste; Olivieri, Sergio

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“…Total expenditures on Samurdhi-Sri Lanka's flagship antipoverty program-fell from 0.87 percent to 0.14 percent of GDP between 2001 and 2012 (figure 9.2). Indeed, if the size of the Samurdhi program had not declined but had instead remained unchanged from 2002 to 2009/10, poverty would have been 1.5 percentage points lower, leading to about a 10 percent greater reduction in poverty (Ceriani, Inchauste, and Olivieri 2015).…”

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers: Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

Inchauste¹,

Lustig²

2017

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This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the views of The World Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgment on the part of The World Bank concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or waiver of the privileges and immunities of The World Bank, all of which are specifically reserved.

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The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers: Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

Inchauste¹,

Lustig²

2017

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“…Total expenditures on Samurdhi -Sri Lanka's flagship antipoverty program-fell from 0.87 percent to 0.14 percent of GDP between 2001 and 2012 (figure 2). Indeed, if the size of the Samurdhi program had not declined but had instead remained unchanged from 2002 to 2009/10, poverty would have been 1.5 percentage points lower, leading to about a 10 percent greater reduction in poverty (Ceriani, Inchauste, and Olivieri 2015).…”

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The Incidence of Taxes and Spending in Sri Lanka

Arunatilake¹,

Inchauste²,

Lustig³

2017

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Sri Lanka has made substantial progress in reducing poverty over the past decade. However, important social and economic development needs persist at a time when revenue collections have been disappointing, reducing the government's ability to expand spending. In this context, this paper has sought to evaluate the effectiveness of fiscal policy in addressing inequality and accelerating poverty reduction. The exercise consisted of undertaking incidence analysis of the major tax and transfer programs individually, and then combining them to evaluate the incidence of fiscal policy as a whole. Although we could not carry out incidence analysis of all budget items, we have analyzed the major tax and spending items for which individual tax and benefits can be assigned to households using microdata. The analysis finds that taxes and social spending were redistributive and poverty-reducing overall. However, given the country's relatively low revenue and the limited fiscal space, overall social spending was small, leading to very limited impacts. On the spending side, direct transfers are absolutely progressive, so that their marginal contribution is both equalizing and poverty-reducing. In contrast, spending on indirect subsidies increased with a large part of the resources benefiting nonpoor households. Finally, the analysis found that inkind transfers in the form of education and health are equalizing. Going forward, any efforts to reform taxes could usefully include distributional analysis to assess their impact.

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Understanding Poverty Reduction in Sri Lanka: Evidence from 2002 to 2012/13

Cited by 2 publications

References 10 publications

The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers: Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

The Distributional Impact of Taxes and Transfers: Evidence From Eight Developing Countries

The Incidence of Taxes and Spending in Sri Lanka

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