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    • Inside the Chamber - The Throne Speech 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2024-02-07)
      On February 7, 2024, the 5th session of the 9th parliament was ceremonially declared open by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. He then presented the Statement of Government Policy, which was known as the “Throne Speech” in ...

    • Inside the Chamber - What if a seat of a MP becomes vacant? 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2024-02-09)
      This infographic provides insight into how parliament fills vacant seats. It delves into the possible situations whereby a seat becomes vacant, the process that governs the filling of such vacancies, including the instances ...

    • Inside the Chamber - What's the Constitutional Council? 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2024-03-01)
      This infographic delves into the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka (CC), a 10-member body established under the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that is tasked with making recommendations on key appointments such as ...

    • Inside the Chamber - What’s a standing order? 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2024-02-14)
      This infographic provides insight into Standing Orders of Parliament, which are considered to be the most important source of parliamentary procedure, which guides Parliament’s operations, debates and decision making. It ...

    • Interest payments weigh heaviest in 2022! 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-07-24)
      The central bank's annual report for 2022 reveals that interest payments have reached their highest level. This increase in interest payments suggests a significant debt burden on the government. The ratio of interest ...

    • Interim Budget or Secret Budget? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)
      The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering ...

    • Interim Budget or Secret Budget? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)
      24 expenditure proposals and 5 regulatory proposals were tracked in this assessment. Expenditure proposals refer to those proposals that involve capital expenditure by the government distributed across ministries etc. ...

    • International Day of Democracy 2023 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-09-15)
      The International Day of Democracy is celebrated, on September 15, providing an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. One way this is checked is through elections, as public participation in such ...

    • International intervention: needed or not? 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/18/2019)
      The entry contains writeups regarding international intervention to defeat terrorism after the Easter Sunday attacks. The entry also contains images of newspaper excerpts regarding the issue. Some Sinhala newspapers reported ...

    • International involvement: To help or to meddle? 

      Divide;
      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/28/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in all three languages on the views of the Sinhala and Tamil press on international intervention in Sri Lanka. The entry also includes 2 images of newspapers pertaining to the issue.

    • International Women's Day 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-03-08)
      In Sri Lanka women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as likely to be unemployed than men. 82% of the unemployment for women comes from between the ages of 20 and 40. This is almost seven times the ...

    • International Women's Day: Ethical Reporting on women 

      Ethics Eye;
      Ethics Eye       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03-07)
      On International Women's Day, ethical guidelines were published on a post to create awareness on reporting on women.

    • International Workers' Day: Are MPs Doing Enough on Labour Issues 

      Team, Manthri (Manthri.lk, 2017-05-01)
      This infographic was uploaded for International Workers' Day, showing the highest mp contribution to the topic of labour and which extent to it has been discussed in Parliament.

    • Is age just a number: MPs over the age of 60 – What should determine an MPs retirement? 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2022-09-07)
      During the interim budget 2022 reading President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that a mandatory retirement age of 60 will be imposed for state sector employees. These infographics show the details of MPs above 60 years ...

    • Is Blocking Websites Making Sri Lankan Telecom Share Prices Vulnerable? 

      Verité Insights;Vol 2, No. 12
      Corea, Viran; Knight, Malathy       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07)
      If Sri Lankan Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are blocking news websites without due diligence, then their present and future share values are vulnerable. This Insight explains what ISPs should do to ensure minimum due ...

    • Is it appropriate to use the term "mistress"? 

      Ethics Eye Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2020-01-03)
      On 31 December 2019 Daily Mirror published a news item which included the term "mistress". Ethics Eye pointed out that The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a prominent international media and communications organisation ...

    • Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?: Concern on Budget Deficits 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-16)
      Besides 2017 and 2018, Sri Lanka’s annual Primary Balance has consistently been a deficit with 2021 reporting the largest deficit of 6 percent. Maldives follows a consecutive negative trend in their Primary Balance with ...

    • Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?: Maldives is increasingly finding it difficult to cover recurrent expenditure 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-17)
      Since 1983, Sri Lanka has faced the continuous challenge of its revenue falling short of covering recurrent expenditure. Subsequently, when looking at Maldives’s fiscal performance it seems to echo Sri Lanka’s trajectory. ...

    • Is Sri Lanka Addicted to Missing Revenue Targets? 

      de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-10-30)
      It is all too familiar that Sri Lanka has a problem in meeting its budgeted revenue targets. Recently, a government member of parliament (MP) who voted in favour of the budget last year, said that the tax increases that ...

    • Is the Pandemic the Sole Cause for the Depletion in Sri Lanka’s Foreign Reserves? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-10)
      Sri Lanka’s usable foreign reserves fell from USD 7,642 MN in 2019 to USD 1,579 MN by the end of 2021. When compared with Sri Lanka’s regional peers during the pandemic, the decline in its reserves appears to only have ...