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    • Sri Lanka's Domestic Barriers to Trade: Case Studies of Agricultural Exports 

      Munas, Hasna; Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Wickramage, Dinoo (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-02)
      Trade barriers refer to factors beyond the exporter’s direct control that adversely affect the cost, quality, quantity, or timely delivery of products. Such barriers found at home are termed domestic barriers, while those ...

    • Sri Lanka's Fiscal Targets for 2023 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-11-15)
      The infographic outlined that Government revenue was expected to be 11.3% of GDP in 2023, according to projections in the Budget 2023.

    • Sri Lanka's Government Revenue in 2021 Covered Only 41% of Expenditure 

      Raj Prabu, Rajakulendran (Verité Research, 2022-09-07)
      Government revenue in 2021 was only 41% of its expenditure, which was inadequate to cover even its recurrent expenditure. It falls short of the two largest recurrent expenditure components cumulatively - salaries & wages, ...

    • Sri Lanka's Unique Revenue Problem 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-04-28)
      Tax to GDP and GDP per capita for most South Asian countries shows a positive relationship. For example, Bhutan had a tax to GDP of 10% in and GDP per capita of 4% in the year 2000. By 2020, tax to GDP had risen to just ...

    • Sri Lanka-China FTA: Challenges and Opportunities - Insights from Analysing China’s Existing FTAs 

      TMA special report 2018
      Arangala, Mathisha Lovindu; Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-04)
      Sri Lanka and China decided to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in August 2013 to further expand trade between the two countries. Technical negotiations, which officially commenced in September 2014, are still ...

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society In Sight but Out of Mind 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report;No. 3
      Politics Team       (Colombo, Verite Research Pvt. Ltd., 2015-03)
      Verité Research conducted interviews with 22 members of civil society organizations to assess the quantity and quality of research on the subject of domestic workers’ rights in Sri Lanka. While measuring and evaluating ...

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Employers Survey 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report; No. 2
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Kumarage, Aloka       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-03)
      VR conducted a survey among domestic workers and employers of domestic workers in Sri Lanka during the period of March to June 2014 and analysed the findings in terms of domestic workers' working standards, wages and ...

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers, An Analysis of the Legal and Policy Framework 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report;No. 1
      Legal Team       (Colombo, Verite Research Pvt. Ltd., 2015-03)
      This report analyses the legal and policy frameworks applicable to domestic workers in Sri Lanka. The report uses global standards of decent work to offer a fresh perspective on the problem and aims to outline a strategy ...

    • Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis 

      TMA Special Report; Vol. 2, No. 1
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07)
      This brief provides a detailed analysis of  Sri Lanka's  trade performance during 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. The review highlights the external and internal drivers that shaped Sri Lanka's external trade developments. ...

    • Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis 

      TMA Special Report;Vol. 1. No. 1
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-11)
      This brief analyses Sri Lanka's international trade with special reference to its trade deficit, apparel sector and tea exports. It also analyses and evaluates the policies and structural issues Sri Lanka's trade faces.

    • Sri Lanka: LLRC Implementation Monitor 

      Statistical and Analytical Review;No. 3
      Mohammed, Rehana; Kumarage, Aloka; Gunatilleke, Gehan       (Verité Research, 2014-12)
      The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) published its final report on 16 December 2011. On 26 July 2012, the government released a National Plan of Action (NPA) to implement the LLRC's recommendations. In ...

    • Sri Lanka: LLRC Implementation Monitor - Statistical and Analytical Review No.1 

      LLRC;01
      de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan       (Verité Research, 2012-11)
      The foregoing analysis has resulted in several key findings that could contribute to ongoing efforts to implement the recommendations of the LLRC. These findings also reflect on how comprehensive and effective the NPA is, ...

    • Sri Lanka: LLRC Implementation Monitor: Constructive Recommendations - Statistical and Analytical Review No.2 

      LLRC;02
      Legal Team       (Verité Research, 2014-03)
      In January 2014, the Government of Sri Lanka claimed that the implementation of a significant number of constructive recommendations was ‘completed’. In fact, according to the government’s reports on progress, the ...

    • Sri Lanka: LLRC Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No.4 - LLRC Recommendations and UNHRC Commitments 

      Statistical and Analytical Review; No. 4
      Legal Team       (Verité Research, 2016-06)
      In January 2015, Sri Lanka underwent its first major political transition since the end of the armed conflict in 2009. The immediate post-war years saw limited progress towards reconciliation and accountability. In such ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 2 

      Statistical and Analytical Review; No. 2
      Legal Team; Mohammed, Rehana       (Verité Research, 2017-03)
      In June 2016, VR released an analysis of government progress in implementing the 36 actionable commitments in Resolution 30/1. This briefing note contains an updated analysis of progress since June 2016.Overall Status of ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 3 

      Statistical and Analytical Review; No. 3
      Razick, Sakeena; Mohammed, Rehana; Legal Team       (Verité Research, 2018-02)
      The government’s commitments in Resolution 30/1 have come to denote the main features of Sri Lanka’s transitional justice agenda, particularly with regard to accountability mechanisms for abuses suffered by victims of the ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 4 

      Statistical and Analytical Review; No. 4
      Razick, Sakeena; Amarasiri, Sierra; Lelwala, Ahalya       (Verité Research, 2019-03)
      Sri Lanka’s progress in implementing Resolution 30/1 is due to be taken up for discussion at the UNHRC’s 40th session in February and March 2019. The Council will consider the report of the Office of the United Nations ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 5 

      Legal Team (Verité Research, 2020-02)
      Resolution 30/1 was co-sponsored in 2015. It contains 36 distinct commitments that fall into five broad thematic categories: 1. Transitional justice and reconciliation 2. Rights and rule of law 3. Security and demilitarisation ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 6 

      Legal Team (Verité Research, 2021-02)
      Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor - Statistical and Analytical Review No. 6’, provides an updated analysis from February 2020 to February 2021, of the Sri Lankan government’s progress in implementing the ...

    • Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 7 

      Statistical and Analytical Review;No. 7
      Legal Team       (Colombo: Verite, 2022-03)
      This is Verité Research’s latest study on the Sri Lankan government’s progress in fulfilling the commitments on reconciliation and accountability in UNHRC Resolution 30/1. At the 46th session of the United Nations Human ...