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Natural Disaster Insurance Coverage
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-04)Despite an increasing number of natural disasters in recent years, Sri Lanka suffers from a limited uptake of natural disaster insurance coverage. Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are especially vulnerable ... -
Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better Reporting Can Help – A Case Study on China Debt
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)This brief shows that the failure to factor external debt outside central government agencies leads to an underestimation of Sri Lanka’s debt. This underlying informational problem is illustrated in three sections. The ... -
Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better reporting can help – a case study on China debt = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ණය කළමනාකරණයට නිවැරදි වාර්තාකරණයේ වැදගත්කම – චීන ණය පිළිබඳ සිද්ධි අධ්යයනයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)The published information on debt underestimates Sri Lanka’s overall external public debt burden and its distribution amongst external lenders. This problem arises because Sri Lanka’s reporting of external debt is limited ... -
Nayaru religious site: Polar narratives at play
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/12/2019)The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to the coverage of tensed situation in Nayaru during Thai pongal celebration in January 2019. The entry also includes images of newspaper excerpts regarding ... -
Negative Terms
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-05-01)On April 30, 2020 Mawbima and Lankadeepa published articles containing the term "Kudda" in their headlines -
New Constitution: Is it 'federal' or is it 'unitary'?
(Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/10/2019)The entry contains writeups in Sinhala and Tamil on the new constitution that was being drafted. The press discussed the terms 'unitary' and 'federal'. In addition, the entry also contains 6 images of newspaper excerpts ... -
The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2017-08)An analysis of past budgets revel large deviations between budgeted allocations and actual expenditure. This shows that expectations set by the government during the budget speech are not honoured. This Insight analyses ... -
Newly Appointed Cabinet Ministers - 20 December 2018
(Manthri.lk, 2018-12-20)These infographics show the new Cabinet of Ministers who were sworn on 20th December 2018 in 8th Parliament. -
Newly Appointed Parliament Heads
(Manthri.lk, 2020-08-21)This infographic shows the newly appointed parliament heads for the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. -
The news on ITN: Is there a basis for it? Is it not misleading?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-02)On 26 March 2020, ITN's 09.30 pm news ran a segment on the presidential pardon granted to Sunil Rathnayake. In this segment, Rathnayake's arrest and sentence was described as being part of the alleged 'Ranaviru Dadayama' ... -
Newspapers that have violated ethical guidelines when reporting on COVID-19: 2020 April 01-30
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-04-30)On 30 April 2020 Ethics Eye published an infographic summarising the number of times Aruna, Dinamina, Divaina, Lankadeepa, Mawbima (and their Sunday variants) violated the guidelines issued by the Ministry of Healthcare ... -
Nihal Thalduwa: Criticism of the President
(www.factcheck.lk, 1/5/2022)FALSE: It is prohibited to publish and exchange statements that insult the president on social media or any other media. The police is vested with the authority to take legal action against those who do so. – SSP Nihal ... -
Nimal Siripala De Silva: Tea Exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 3/4/2021)TRUE: Tea export volumes in 2020 declined by 9.2% or 27 million kilos to 265.5 million kilos from the previous year, whilst in value terms, the performance was down by Rs. 10.4 billion or 4.3% to Rs. 230.1 billion from ... -
Niroshan Perera: Decline in industrial sector and exports
(www.factcheck.lk, 10/20/2023)PARTLY TRUE: …the exports have decreased by 19.5 %. […] in the first quarter of 2023, the industrial sector has collapsed by 23.4%. Niroshan Perera, YouTube page of Parliament of Sri Lanka, 23 August 2023 -
Nishan De Mel and Our Post-trust Society - Part 1 and 2
(20 MinuteTakes, 2022-12-07)In these podcasts, Dr. Nishan De Mel shares his insights towards building trust and integrity of the society; highlighting the responsibility of Media. -
No Confidence Motion Against Keheliya Rambukwella - Voting Breakdown
(Manthri.lk, 2023-09-09)On September 8, 2023, the No Confidence Motion brought against Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella was defeated, by a margin of 40 votes. The following compilation of infographics reflects the list of MPs that voted in ... -
No Confidence Motion Against Speaker - Voting Breakdown
(Manthri.lk, 2024-03-21)On March 21, 2024, the No Confidence Motion brought against the Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, was defeated, by a margin of 42 votes. The following compilation of infographics reflects the list of MPs ... -
The nomination process of parliamentary election 2020
(Manthri.lk, 2020-03-18)These Infographics show the Nomination process of Parliamentary election 2020. It includes with Nomination Period, The Preparation of Nomination Papers, Nomination Papers of Independent Groups, Handing Over Nomination ... -
Northern Provincial Council: Citizens Budget 2022
(Colombo: UNICEF, 2022)The citizens' budget was essentially a simpler, shorter, and less technical version of the government's budget that was specifically designed after crucial consultation with the public and civil society to present key ... -
The Number of MPs to be Elected From Each Electoral District
(Manthri.lk, 2020-03-18)This infographic shows the number of MPs to be elected from each electoral district at the Parliamentary election 2020 .