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Sri Lanka met 25% of IMF commitments and failed 1 by March
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-04-21)
Sri Lanka had met 25% of the trackable programme commitments of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme as at the end of March 2023 but had failed on one. Many of the commitments met were classified as “prior ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 05 2023 - IMF Programme
(Verité Research, 2023-06)
Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ...
Expenditure on the Education Sector : Regional Comparison
(2022-01-24)
The UN has dedicated the 24th of January as the International Day of Education in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. Sri Lankas’ Education Expenditure has been lagging behind regional peers. ...
Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?: Maldives is increasingly finding it difficult to cover recurrent expenditure
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-17)
Since 1983, Sri Lanka has faced the continuous challenge of its revenue falling short of covering recurrent expenditure. Subsequently, when looking at Maldives’s fiscal performance it seems to echo Sri Lanka’s trajectory. ...
Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lifted in 2024?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-01)
The lack of transparency on the implementation progress of proposals in budget speeches has increased sharply in 2022 and 2023, according to a systematic evaluation conducted by Verité Research.
The government – on ...
Sri Lanka’s Revenue to GDP Ratio Reaches Its Lowest Level Since 1959
(2022-06)
Data on Sri Lanka’s revenue to GDP ratio is available from 1959 onwards.
The average tax to GDP ratio from 1959 to 2021 is 16%. In 2021 the tax to GDP ratio dropped to 8%, which the lowest ratio since 1959 and is half ...
IMF Tracker Update: February 2024
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2024-03)
Sri Lanka verifiably failed to meet 33% of the commitments due by end-February 2024 in its International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, according to the February update of Verité Research’s ‘IMF Tracker’. Many of these ...