Sri Lanka, Oct. 16 -- Sri Lanka's tax policies played a driving role in the country's devastating 2022 economic crisis and have contributed to the chronic underfunding of education and other public services, Human Rights Watch said in a report released recently.

The government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake should urgently adopt measures to uphold its human rights obligations and enact reforms to a system that presently favors companies and wealthy people while failing to deliver adequate revenues.

The 101-page report, "Tax Giveaways, Struggling Schools: How Low Taxes Drove Sri Lanka's Economic Crisis and Squandered its Education Lead," describes how Sri Lanka's successive governments have adopted policies that resulted in inadeq...