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TAF Public Finance Manual for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
(2022)Public finance is crucial with direct impact to the general public. It has been highlighted that the public of Sri Lanka does not have a good understanding about public finance. This public finance manual has the objective ... -
Tamil press doesn't want to forget; Sinhala press doesn't want forgiveness
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/28/2019)The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, English and Tamil on the press coverage on Ranil Wickremeisinghe's speech in Kilinochchi on 15 February, 2019, requesting to forgive and forget. The entry also includes images of ... -
Targeting Assistance: Electricity Consumption is a Superior Method
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-07)This note recommends household electricity use as a determinant of eligibility for welfare benefits. As Sri Lanka’s crisis continues, up to 50% or more of the population is likely to need state support, however current ... -
TAs with India and China: Potential for Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04)Sri Lanka has various levels of trade agreements (TAs) with both India and China. A new TA with China was mooted in 2014 and the appetite for that continues in the new presidency and policy context of 2015. While statistics ... -
Tax on Sanitary Napkins
(Verité Research, 2022-07-20)On the 31st of May 2022 the general customs duty on sanitary napkins were removed and VAT rate was increased from 8% to 12%. The revision resulted in the total tax rate on sanitary napkins falling to 42.8% from 53.6%. ... -
Tax revenue misses IMF target in 1st quarter!
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-04)According to the 2022 Annual Report from the Ministry of Finance, tax revenue for the first quarter of 2023 experienced a surge of 56%, amounting to LKR 578 billion. This was a increase from the LKR 370 billion collected ... -
The Tea Industry: A New Sustainability Approach
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-09)What do unions do? In a landmark title by this name (1984), Harvard University economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff demonstrated that labour unions have two faces. One is confrontational and the other is cooperative. ... -
A Technical Case for Affordability-Based Pricing of Cigarettes
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-09)By 2014, tax revenue from cigarettes accounted for over 4.9% of total government revenue. However, thus far, Sri Lanka’s tax adjustments have been ad hoc, and driven by political and bureaucratic discretion rather than a ... -
A tense situation in Kanniya Trincomalee: How did the front page headings of Sinhala and Tamil press cover it?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/19/2019)Difference between Sinhala and Tamil press in coverage pertaining to protest in Kanniya, Trincomalee. -
Thalatha Atukorale: Prison statistics
(www.factcheck.lk, 5/23/2019)PARTLY TRUE: There are close to 22,000 inmates in prisons. Of them, a large number is serving sentences that are less than two years. - Thalatha Atukorale, Dinamina, 10 April 2019 -
Tilak Marapana: Release of military acquired lands
(www.factcheck.lk, 6/13/2019)PARTLY TRUE: Of the 71,172.56 acres of state-owned land occupied by the security forces, 63,257.48 acres were released between May 2009 and 12 March 2019. This is a release of 88.87% of the initially occupied land. - Tilak ... -
Tobacco Policy: Mitigating the Influence of Vested Interests=දුම්කොළ ප්රතිපත්තිය: ඇල්මැති පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ බලපෑම අවම කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-07)Sri Lanka is a signatory to the International Treaty, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since 2003. It has not yet implemented the provisions relating to protecting tobacco policy from vested interests. This Insight ... -
Total and primary deficits run in opposite directions
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-09-22)The governments primary deficit improved in the first half of 2023 compared to the corresponding period in 2022, while the budget deficit worsened increasing from LKR -903 Bn to LKR -1,243 Bn which implies a significant ... -
Total SOE Losses in the first four months of 2022 Outweigh Annual Losses in 2021
(Verité Research, 2022-08-09)During the first four months of 2022 the cumulative loss of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) amounted to LKR 860 BN. This figure outweighs the annual loss of SOEs in 2021. The top 3 contributors to the increase of the loss ... -
Tourism Could Not Have Solved Sri Lanka’s Foreign Exchange Crisis
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09)A key debate during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is whether the current dollar shortage is a short-term liquidity problem or a more protracted and systemic issue that requires debt reduction. This insight responds to the ... -
Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-09)Two previous Verité Insights titled “Sri Lanka missing world’s biggest trade party and its in her backyard” & “Trade Agreements that don’t deliver the goods” published in May and June 2013 pointed out that Sri Lanka is ... -
Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-04-06)In 2016, Sri Lanka began its first round of negotiations on an Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ECTA) with India. This envisages liberalising trade in services. The lack of information on what was being ... -
Trademark Registration: From Colombo to Madrid
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-11-30)The Madrid Protocol is a global mechanism for registering trademarks outside one’s home country. It reduces the time, inconvenience and cost incurred by companies attempting to ensure international recognition and protection ... -
Trading with China: Challenges and Policy Issues faced by MSMEs
(Geneva: CUTS International, 2018-07)The note illustrates the views of, and challenges faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in exporting to China, with a focus on China’s trade policy and trade standards that may have hindered exports. -
The troubling lack of compliance by public authorities with RTI Act
(Colombo: Verité, 2023-09-28)This Op Ed (Opinion Edition) evaluates the compliance of 31 public authorities with online proactive disclosure requirements under the RTI Act. The 2017 methodology was applied to 29 cabinet ministries and the Offices of ...