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Assignment 1
Siadth Perera
Prashan Muthugala
Salient features of public expenditure on Education
The Sri Lankan education system has been celebrated in development policy circles
and the economic literature for its success in providing widespread access to
primary and secondary education and enabling the country to attain comparatively
high human development levels for a low
income economy. Up to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka enjoyed the highest basic social
development outcomes relative to per capita income among virtually all developing
countries. This achievement was the result of strategic public policy decisions, over
several successive generations, to invest resources in education, health and other
social services.
Hence it can be seen that the expenditure on education has increased over
the years,but majority of the targets were not achieved because of poor
planning,poor allocation and of funds and corruption.
Health care is one of the most important needs of a citizen in any country.
Due to the fact that it is a public good and also due to the rapid increase in
aging population, it has a direct impact on the volume of services demanded
by the government.
Time to time government of Sri Lanka has come up with policies to increase
the life expectancy and improve quality of life.
When considering the time period from 1995-2006 the cost on health has
increased from 10,952 million rupees to 58,000 imposing a higher burden on
the government since it leads to expansionary fiscal policy measures.
( institute of health policy)
The Major policies undertaken in health expenditure sector &
objectives behind them
• Introducing public mid wife (PHM) in order to help the poor society.
• There had been an overall improvement & government has been able
to Serve
citizens who can’t afford to satisfy their health needs at private
hospitals rising cost. This
250,000.00
200,000.00
150,000.00
100,000.00
50,000.00
0.00
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Years
160000
140000
120000
100000
Rs(Mill) 80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Education Health Defence Infrastructure
EXPENDITURE TYPE