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Special Report – Budget 2012
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2011-12-30)
The report summarises Sri Lanka’s macroeconomic environment, analysing the 2012 budget and providing a comparative study of government expenditure. It finds that the focus of government expenditure has shifted from funding ...
Analysis of Sri Lanka's improved position in the 'Doing Business Index' 2012
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2011-11-01)
The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business Index’ measures the ease with which domestic small and medium sized enterprises can do business in their home countries. Between 2011 and 2012, Sri Lanka’s rank in the Doing Business Index ...
Employees Provident Fund (EPF): Special Report
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2012-03-28)
This brief discusses the performance of the Employees' Provident Fund's (EPF) equity investments in the period 2009–2010 in comparison to risk-free government securities, the All Share Price Index (ASPI) and equity ...
Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical and Analytical Review No. 6
(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 Strategic Assessment 2016
(Colombo: The Asia Foundation, 2016-03)
Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and one ...
Sri Lanka Strategic Assessment 2016
(The Asia Foundation, 2016-03)
Sri Lanka underwent a major political transition in 2015 with the election of President
Maithripala Sirisena and the establishment of a new coalition government between the
United Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) and ...
Mapping Sri Lanka's Political Parties: Actors and Evolutions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-11)
This report examines the histories of individual political parties in Sri Lanka. Over the course of Sri Lankan history, four political parties have dominated the political landscape: the United National Party (UNP), the ...
Maintaining Democratic Space in the Public Sphere: A Strategy for Sri Lanka Civil Society
(Verité Research, 2015-10)
Civil society in Sri Lanka has maintained a complex relationship with political society. Over the years, the nature and extent of civil society space has been determined by the policies and ideologies dominant in the ...
Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society In Sight but Out of Mind
(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 ...
Electoral Reform in Sri Lanka: Mixed-Member Proportional System
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016)
Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto, published after his election on 8 January 2015, included a response to a long-standing demand to reform Sri Lanka’s electoral system. This paper examines the key ...