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Revenue performance: January - August 2024
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-10-29)During the first eight months of 2024, government revenue rose from LKR 1,819 billion to LKR 2,557 billion compared to the same period in the previous year. This increase arises from high revenue growth across all major ... -
අයවැය විනිවිදභාවය: ලකුණු කාඩ්පත - රටවල් 125 කින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 80 වැනි ස්ථානයට පත්ව ඇත
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-31)The Open Budget Survey (OBS) is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument that uses internationally accepted criteria to assess public access to central government budget information, ... -
Sri Lanka's public sector outweighs Asian peers
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-11-20)Sri Lanka’s public sector employment levels are highest among countries in South and Southeast Asia region. In 2023, 15% of the total 8 million workforce (1.16 million people) were employed in the public sector, including ... -
Petrol and Diesel Market Prices vs. Formula Price in November
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-11)Following the monthly fuel price revision on 01 November 2024, the market price of 92 octane petrol and the market price of auto diesel remained unchanged. However, the cost-reflective fuel formula prices for 92 octane ... -
The Price of Parliament (2022)
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-11)In 2022, the most recent year with detailed data, Sri Lanka spent LKR 3,248 million on operating its parliament, amounting to an average of LKR 32.2 million per sitting. This expenditure is divided across the subsections ... -
Dissecting Personal Laws in Sri Lanka: Property Rights in Tesawalamai Law
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10-21)Sri Lanka has distinct personal laws applicable to specific ethnic and religious groups, such as Kandyan Law, Muslim Law, and Tesawalamai Law. This infographic focuses on the disparities between Tesawalamai Law and the ... -
Dissecting Personal Laws in Sri Lanka: Divorce in Muslim Law
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10-19)Sri Lanka has distinct personal laws applicable to specific ethnic and religious groups, such as Kandyan Law, Muslim Law, and Tesawalamai Law. This infographic focuses on the disparities between Muslim Law and the General ... -
Dissecting Personal Laws in Sri Lanka: Divorce in Kandyan Law
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-10-20)Sri Lanka has distinct personal laws applicable to specific ethnic and religious groups, such as Kandyan Law, Muslim Law, and Tesawalamai Law. This infographic focuses on the disparities between Kandyan Law and the General ... -
Sri Lanka’s government education expenditure is the world’s third lowest
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-10)In 2022, Sri Lanka’s government, both provincial and central, allocated only 1.5 percent of GDP on all levels (including primary, secondary, and tertiary levels). This placed Sri Lanka as the third-lowest country in the ... -
Sri Lanka's government education expenditure is the lowest in South Asia
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-10)In 2022, Sri Lanka’s government, both provincial and central, dedicated only 1.5 percent of its GDP to education, including primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. This places Sri Lanka at the bottom of the list for ... -
9 Years Since Bond Scam
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-02-27)The 27th of February marks nine years since the infamous “bond scam” of 2015. This resulted in a forensic audit, completed in 2019, on activities of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) with regard to bond market auctions ... -
Budget Transparency: Score card - Sri Lanka is ranked 80th out of 125 countries
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-31)The Open Budget Survey (OBS) is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument that uses internationally accepted criteria to assess public access to central government budget information, ... -
A rapid assessment on extending social security to domestic workers
(Colombo: International Labour Organization, 2022-03)This report, commissioned by the International Labour Organization assesses the challenges in extending social security benefits to domestic workers in Sri Lanka. It highlights legal gaps, socio-cultural barriers, and ... -
රාජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය සනත් නිශාන්ත පෙරේරා ජීවිතක්ෂයට පත් වූ හදිසි අනතුර සහ අවමංගල්‍ය කටයුතු පිළිබඳව සිංහල පුවත්පත් හා රූපවාහිනී පුවත් වාර්තාකරණ ඔස්සේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-26)On January 25 and 26, 2024, multiple newspapers, including Aruna, Dinamina, Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina, and TV news such as Hiru, Rupavahini, Derana, Sirasa, Swarnavahini, and Siyatha, disclosed the identities of Sanath ... -
මාර්ගගත ක්‍රමවල සුරක්ෂිතභාවය පිළිබඳ පනත් කෙටුම්පත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සම්මත වීම සිංහල සහ ඉංග්‍රීසි පුවත්පත් මුල්පිටු සිරස්තල දැක්වූ ආකාරය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-25)On January 25, 2024, Ethics Eye posted a post showing the front page headlines from Sinhala and English newspapers about the passing of the Online Safety Bill. The post did not focus on any ethical issues; instead, it ... -
මෙම එකිනෙකට වෙනස් සිරස්තල ගැන ඔබ සිතන්නේ කුමක්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-01-24)On January 14, 2024, the local media Sathi Aga Aruna reported on the appointment of French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal with the headline: "The New Prime Minister of France: Macron’s Boy; 34 Years Old; A Homosexual." In ... -
Forensic audit revealed LKR 10 bn loss to EPF in irregular bond market transactions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-10-04)The Presidential Commission of Inquiry that investigated the 2015 Bond Scam recommended a forensic audit of the EPF's historical transactions in the bond and equity markets. The forensic audit, published in 2019, produced ... -
Revenue foregone by government due to tax concessions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-04-01)For the fiscal year 2022/23 (April to March), tax concessions resulted in a total of LKR 978 billion in foregone revenue, the government reported on 31 March. The foregone revenue amounts to 56% of the total tax revenue ... -
Proposed 13% primary expenditure rule for Sri Lanka departs from economic theory and practice
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-07-24)The government of Sri Lanka gazetted the Public Financial Management (PFM) Bill to enhance transparency, accountability, and control of public funds. A key provision of the bill is the establishment of a limit on government ... -
Verité Research proposed 4 policy actions in 2020 to enhance Sri Lanka's public finance processes
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2024-08-30)The Public Financial Management Act, No. 44 of 2024 and the Parliamentary Budget Office Act, No. 6 of 2023, contain several key policy actions aimed at improving public finance management in Sri Lanka. In February 2020, ...