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Hill Country Tamils of Sri Lanka: Analysis of Legal and Policy issues affecting labour and governance structure
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-02)
This report examines the socio-economic background and history of the Hill Country Tamil community (HCT) with a focus on health, education, labour and their primary engagement in the tea plantation industry. Thereafter, ...
International Women's Day
(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 ...
Will the Increase in Cigarette Taxes Meet Budgeted Revenue?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-01-05)
This infographic outlines the fact that, though there was an increase in excise taxes on tobacco at the start of January in 2023, this will still not help Sri Lanka reach its revenue target for the year.
MPs Attendance in Parliament - August 2023
(Manthri.lk, 2023-09-14)
This infographic shows the attendance of MPs in the parliament during the 8 sittings in August 2023. This infographic also highlights the 8 MPs who had the lowest attendance during the parliament sittings. Those MPs were ...
How Committed was the Sri Lankan Government to Implementing its Crisis-Response Policies
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-03-17)
This set of infographics depict the government's response to the economic crisis in Sri Lanka. 15 cabinet decisions and parliamentary proposals were tracked that focused on health, agriculture and fuel. Of the total, ...
Election expenditure – Voting – Third reading
(Manthri.lk, 2023-01-24)
The third reading of election expenditure bill passed with a simple majority. These infographics show the MP voting counts by political party, the list of MPs that voted in favour, against and MPs who were absent during ...
Sri Lanka met 35 IMF commitments and failed 7 by end-July
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-22)
The share of Sri Lanka’s 100 trackable commitments in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme for which no data has been made available to assess progress — despite passing the agreed deadline — has increased from ...
37 New State Ministers! - Appointed on 8 September 2022
(Manthri.lk, 2022-09-09)
Thirty seven state ministers from the ruling coalition of Sri Lanka were sworn in on the 8 September 2022 before the President Ranil Wickremesinghe. Manthri.lk identified the MPs according to their overall rank in the ...
Flow of External Loans to Sri Lanka
(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 ...
MPs Attendance in Parliament - February 2022
(Manthri.lk, 2022-03-17)
This infographic shows Sri Lankan MPs attendance of Parliament in February 2022. Parliament was convened on the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th of February 2022. The infographic also highlights the following ...