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President's Executive Powers: Demystifying the 19A Bill Ruling
(Verite Research, 2015-04)
The Supreme Court ruling of April 2015 with regard to the 19th Amendment Bill1 has generated much interest and commentary. What exactly are the implications of the ruling and does it or does it not allow the curtailment ...
Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)
In February 2015 the Central Bank of Sri Lanka called an auction for one billion rupees on a 30 year bond. It then accepted 10 fold – 10 billion rupees – after the bids were in. This Insight identifies three errors in the ...
Does the Sri Lankan media exploit parliamentary candidates during elections?
(Verité Research, 2020-09)
The pricing data of media institutions reveals that the media discriminates against the democratic process by charging higher rates for political ads than commercial ads, during election periods. This Insight quantifies ...
Financing Infrastructure: The (Non) Concessionality of Concessional Loans
(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 ...
මහ බැංකුවේ තිස් අවුරුදු බැඳුම්කර ඛේදවාචකය: ‘අහිමි වූයේ‘ කුමක් ද? = Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)
In February 2015 the Central Bank of Sri Lanka called an auction for one billion rupees on a 30 year bond. It then accepted 10 fold – 10 billion rupees – after the bids were in. This Insight identifies three errors in the ...
Sri Lanka: LLRC Implementation Monitor - Statistical and Analytical Review No.1
(Verité Research, 2012-11)
The foregoing analysis has resulted in several key findings that could contribute to ongoing efforts to implement the recommendations of the LLRC. These findings also reflect on how comprehensive and effective the NPA is, ...
19th Amendment: The Wins, the Losses and the In-betweens
(Verité Research, 2015-06)
This research brief seeks to provide an insight into how the final
outcome of 19A fulfils the key expectations of democratising and depoliticising governance.
The enactment of 19A is certainly a watershed event in Sri ...
Cigarette Tax Indexation in Budget 2019
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-07-17)
The presentation discusses the cigarette tax indexation that was implemented by Sri Lanka’s Budget for 2019 (released in March). This indexation solved 2 problems of cigarette tax revisions in Sri Lanka—they were both too ...
Cigarette Tax Indexation, Getting It Right and Getting It Wrong
(2019-08)
The article tackles the cigarette tax indexation policy introduced with Sri Lanka’s 2019 Budget: where annual increases to the cigarette excise tax (a tax exclusive to cigarettes) will be based on inflation and income ...
Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020, if Indexation Is Implemented=දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අය කරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06-01)
The government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette ...