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    • Exports to India – Putting the free back into the FTA 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 14
      Munas, Hasna; Nathaniel, Vidya
      (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)
      Sri Lanka’s history with bi-lateral trade agreements demonstrates the need for more careful negotiation. This Insight explains how the tariff benefits of the India Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) have been outweighed ...
    • Expunged Statements: What are they? 

      Parliamentry Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-09-01)
      This infographic explains about the statements of MPs which are expunged by the Speaker in the parliament. As well, the infographic shows the nature of statements that can be expunged by the Speaker. There are 10 MPs who ...
    • Facilitating the Registration of Trademarks: A Step towards Creating Internationally Recognised Sri Lankan Brands 

      Ekanayake, Anoji; Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Sanguhan, Yajna; Esufally, Sabrina (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-02)
      The Madrid Protocol is a simplified global system for registering trademarks abroad. It eases trademark registration abroad for Sri Lankan businesses. Sri Lanka was looking to complete accession to the Madrid Protocol by ...
    • Facing a Second Wave of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka: Economic Cost of a Lockdown Strategy 

      Asia's Path Forward;
      de Mel, Deshal; Kapilan, Anushan
      (Washington: Center for International Private Enterprise, 2020-08)
      As of August 2020, Sri Lanka is currently in the post-lockdown stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the surge in the number of infections in mid-March, the country was forced into a complete lockdown with all-day ...
    • Fair Recruitment of Migrant Workers in Sri Lanka: A Legal Gap Analysis 

      Legal Team (Verite Research, 2022-04)
      This report analyses and discusses the legal and policy issues surrounding recruitment practices for foreign employment that Sri Lankan migrant workers face. For this study, the team has selected issues relevant to three ...
    • Family Connections in the 8th Parliament of Sri Lanka. 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2020-07-09)
      This Infographic shows the 71 out of the 225 MPs in the previous parliament had immediate family members in politics.
    • Family Connections in the Sri Lankan Parliament 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2024-02-05)
      Manthri.lk found that 66 MPs (at minimum) in the 9th Parliament has family connections in public office, encompassing 28% of the total MPs. A person in public office is defined as having been elected at a national or ...
    • Farmers' Pulse Survey July 2021 - Infographics 

      Econ, Team (Verité Research, 2021-08-25)
      These infographics are based on the 7 key findings of the Farmers’ Pulse survey July, 2021. In April 2021 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced a ban on the importation of chemical fertiliser in Sri Lanka. Accordingly, ...
    • Female legislators in the 9th parliament 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2022-03-08)
      This infographic shows the percentage of gender representation (M = 94.7%; F = 5.3%) in the 9th parliament and also the percentage of productive contributions by gender (M = 95.9%; F = 4.0%). It also highlights the top ...
    • Female Representation in Sri Lankan Legislatures 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2022-03-11)
      This set of infographics show representation of female parliamentarians and its percentage composition from the State Councils (1931) to Parliament of Sri Lanka (to present). Over 50% of Sri Lanka’s population are women ...
    • Financing Infrastructure: The (Non) Concessionality of Concessional Loans 

      de Mel, Nishan; Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Arangala, Mathisha (2020-06)
      Sri Lanka is highly dependent on international loans from multilateral and bilateral sources to finance infrastructure development. Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka ...
    • Financing Infrastructure: The (non) concessionality of concessional loans (Presentation) 

      de Mel, Nishan (2020-09-10)
      Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka because such financing tends to have ‘concessional’ elements, relative to the international financial markets. However, the cost ...
    • Financing of the Budget Deficit, 2010 to 2022 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team
      (2021-11-23)
      The following infographic depicts the financing of the budget deficit from 2010 to 2022 estimates as presented in the 2022 budget.
    • First year of parliament: Top performers 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2021-10-22)
      This infographic shows the ten MPs who performed well in the 9th Parliament during 2020-2021. Parliamentary Hansard reports from August 2020 to July 2021 were considered for this analysis.
    • Fiscal Targets: Budget 2024 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team
      (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-13)
      Projections in Budget 2024 expect revenue to be 13.1% of GDP in 2024.
    • Fixing NTBs between India and Sri Lanka 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 15
      Nathaniel, Vidya; Munas, Hasna
      (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-08)
      The Insight examines the issue of non-tarrif barriers (NTBs) faced by exporters of processed foods from Sri Lanka to India, in the context of ensuring compliance with standards and regulations. It concludes with proposing ...
    • Fixing Sri Lanka’s Revenue Problem is a Priority 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team
      (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-02-10)
      Taxes are the key source of government revenue. Normally, tax share as a percentage of GDP is expected to increase as per capita GDP rises. This Insight shows that in Sri Lanka, this is not the case; the country’s per ...
    • Flawed rationale behind EPF re-entering the stock market = කොටස් වෙළඳපොලට සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල (සේ.අ.අ.) නැවත ඇතුල්වීම පිටුපස ඇති සාවද්‍ය තර්කය 

      Verité Insights;Vol 7, No. 1
      Kapilan, Anushan
      (Colombo: Verité Research, 2019)
      At the end of 2018, the EPF resolved to re-enter the stock market despite substantial losses and allegations of mismanagement on EPF’s equity investments in the past. The EPF provides two reasons for the decision: (i) that ...
    • Flow of External Loans to Sri Lanka 

      Raj Prabu, Rajakulendran (Verité Research, 2022-09-14)
      For the past five years (2017-2021) China has been the largest bilateral lender to Sri Lanka. In 2021, China disbursed a total of USD 947 MN, out of which USD 809 MN was obtained as market borrowings from the China Development ...
    • For Sri Lanka, a Governance-Linked Bond Might Just Be the Ticket 

      de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-12-21)
      It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Sri Lanka under-performs on its governance corrections, it will underperform on its economic recovery also (with apologies to Jane Austen), the first provides the foundation ...