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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 ...
Maintaining Democratic Space in the Public Sphere: A Strategy for Sri Lanka Civil Society
(Verité Research, 2015-10)
Civil society in Sri Lanka has maintained a complex relationship with political society. Over the years, the nature and extent of civil society space has been determined by the policies and ideologies dominant in the ...
Sri Lanka Provincial Council Elections 2012
(2012-09)
This report features a comprehensive analysis of the Provincial Council Elections held in September 2012, detailing the performance of major political parties, voting trends, and the emerging political landscape in post-war ...
Sri Lanka Budget 2013: Increasing Assistance, and Vulnerability
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2012-12)
This report presents an analysis of the contradictory nature of the Budget 2013 through increased assistance to the poor, while at the same time increasing their vulnerability.
The analysis of Budget 2013, rather than ...
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 ...
Any president can contest a third term – if 18A is valid
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11)
This INSIGHT discusses the eligibility of twice-elected Sri Lankan presidents to contest a third term. It demonstrates that the textual arguments claiming to disqualify such presidents are mistaken: first, because an ...
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 ...
"Sugar Scam” is Not the Whole Iceberg: “Forestalling” Needs a Rule-of-Law Solution
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-11-09)
On 14 October 2020, taxes on imported sugar were slashed overnight from LKR 50 to LKR 25 cents per kilogram. That is a reduction of 99.5%. This led to much discussion in media and parliament about the large undue profits ...
For Sri Lanka, a Governance-Linked Bond Might Just Be the Ticket
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-12-21)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if Sri Lanka under-performs on its governance corrections, it will underperform on its economic recovery also (with apologies to Jane Austen), the first provides the foundation ...
Is Sri Lanka Addicted to Missing Revenue Targets?
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-10-30)
It is all too familiar that Sri Lanka has a problem in meeting its budgeted revenue targets. Recently, a government member of parliament (MP) who voted in favour of the budget last year, said that the tax increases that ...