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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 ...
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 ...
Making Public Data Public: Sri Lanka Misses its Own Targets While India Races Ahead
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-07)
The Department of Census and Statistics aims to be the ‘leader in the region’ in producing and providing timely statistical information. However, this insight shows, it has failed in providing public access to data in three ...
Impact of COVID-19 Response on Unemployment in Sri Lanka
(Washington: Center for International Private Enterprise, 2020-10-01)
Goal number eight of the Sustainable Development Goals is set out as “Decent work and economic growth.” This goal recognizes that economic growth is not just an end, but also a means in itself of generating jobs – productive ...
Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better reporting can help – a case study on China debt = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ණය කළමනාකරණයට නිවැරදි වාර්තාකරණයේ වැදගත්කම – චීන ණය පිළිබඳ සිද්ධි අධ්යයනයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)
The published information on debt underestimates Sri Lanka’s overall external public debt burden and its distribution amongst external lenders. This problem arises because Sri Lanka’s reporting of external debt is limited ...
Reviewing the Data Dissemination Practices of Sri Lanka’s Department of Census and Statistics
(2021-02)
In 2014, a data dissemination policy was introduced by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) in Sri Lanka. The DCS is the primary agency responsible for the collection, compilation and dissemination of official ...
Financing Infrastructure: The (non) concessionality of concessional loans (Presentation)
(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 ...
Costs of Doing a Job For Urban Women In Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)
This report addressed a knowledge gap by conducting quantitative surveys and FGDs to estimate monetary & non-monetary “costs of doing a job” for women in Sri Lanka, to understand if it is cost prohibitive to engage in work ...
Impact of FOREX Crisis and Solutions for the National Economy
(Verité Research, 2022-01)
This presentation assesses the reasons for the current unprecedented crisis and the how the current crisis differs from the previous crisis Sri Lanka has been in. This presentation also assesses, the solutions for the ...