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It identifies constraints to ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity across fiscal sustainability, competitiveness for job creation, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability and climate change. The update also highlights a cross-cutting governance challenge, outlines prioritization directions, and includes annexes on prior SCD priorities and key economic indicators.","Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized  \nSri Lanka  \nSystematic Country Diagnostic Update  \nJanuary 2022  \nThe World Bank Group South Asia Region  \nContents  \nAbbreviations ................................................................................................................................................ 2  \nAcknowledgements ....................................................................................................................................... 3  \nExecutive Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 5  \nIntroduction................................................................................................................................................... 9  \nCountry Context.......................................................................................................................................... 10  \nRecent Political Developments ............................................................................................................... 10  \nRecent Trends in Growth and Poverty Reduction .................................................................................. 11  \nConstraints to Ending Poverty and Promoting Shared Prosperity .............................................................. 13  \n1. Challenges to Promoting Fiscal Sustainability ............................................................................... 13  \n2. Challenges to Fostering Competitiveness for Growth and Job Creation ........................................ 18  \n3. Challenges to Enhancing Social Inclusion ...................................................................................... 27  \n4. Challenges to Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change.................................................. 33  \nThe Cross-Cutting Governance Challenge ............................................................................................. 40  \nPrioritization ........................................................................................................................................... 43  \nAnnex 1. 2015 SCD: Priorities Identified and Key Findings...................................................................... 48  \nAnnex 2. Selected Economic Indicators ..................................................................................................... 49  \nAnnex 3. Key Analytical Products Completed in Recent Years and Background Reports for the SCD Update ......................................................................................................................................................... 50  \nAnnex 4. Key Data and Knowledge Gaps .................................................................................................. 50  \nAbbreviations  \nCBSL Central Bank of Sri Lanka  \nCEB Ceylon Electricity Board  \nEPI Environmental Performance Index  \nFDI foreign direct investment  \nGDP gross domestic product  \nGHG greenhouse gas  \nGRID green, resilient, and inclusive development  \nHEC human-elephant conflict  \nHIES Household Income and Expenditure Survey  \nIMF International Monetary Fund  \nkW kilowatt  \nkWh kilowatt-hour  \nLFC licensed finance company  \nMSMEs micro, small, and medium enterprises  \nNAO National Audit Office  \nNCD noncommunicable disease  \nNCRE nonconventional renewable energy  \nNDC Nationally Determined Contribution  \nPIMA Public Investment Management Assessment  \nPPG public and publicly guaranteed  \nPPP public-private partnership  \nSCD Systematic Country Diagnostic  \nSMEs small and medium enterprises  \nSOBE state-owned business enterprise  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