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Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-04-06)
In 2016, Sri Lanka began its first round of negotiations on an Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ECTA) with India. This envisages liberalising trade in services. The lack of information on what was being ...
Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-09)
Two previous Verité Insights titled “Sri Lanka missing world’s biggest trade party and its in her backyard” & “Trade Agreements that don’t deliver the goods” published in May and June 2013 pointed out that Sri Lanka is ...
Budget allocation: Local Governance
(Manthri.lk, 2016-12-05)
This infographic depicts the percentage allocated for the Local Governance in the Budget 2017 and the extent to which this topic have been discussed in Parliament..
Budget 2017: Third Reading Vote
(Manthri.lk, 2016-12-15)
This infograpic depicts how MPs voted in the 3rd reading of the 2017 budget.
The President’s Pledges to Women — A review of the promises and progress made in President Sirisena’s pledge: “A New Sri Lanka for Women”
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
President Maithripala Sirisena pledged ‘A New Sri Lanka for Women’, during his election campaign. The pledge is an ambitious document; it comprises fifteen broad promises, by which the government seeks to alter the lives ...
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 ...
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 ...
The APRC: A Primer for Constitutional Consensus = සර්ව පාක්ෂික නියෝජිත කමිටුව: ව්යවස්ථාමය සම්මුතියකට ප්රවේශයක්
(Verité Research, 2016-04)
This report is a historical study that aims to: 1. Explain the failure of successive attempts at state reform culminating in the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) process; and 2. Demonstrate that the proposals of ...