Research Outputs: Recent submissions

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    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Foreign Affairs 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-07)
      On December 7, 2023, during the 14th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Ali ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-06)
      On December 6, 2023, during the 13th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs were passed. This infographic further highlights key ...

    • IMF Tracker Update: December 2023 

      Econ Team (2024-01)
      The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published its evaluation of Sri Lanka’s performance in the first phase or ‘first term’ of the ongoing Extended Fund Facility (EFF) programme, which commenced in March 2023. Verité ...

    • Eran Wickramaratne: Excise taxes 

      FactCheck.lk;P0092
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 1/12/2024)
      PARTLY TRUE: The government, despite taking the path of revenue-based stabilisation, has fallen significantly short of its targets. For instance, excise revenues have fallen short by approximately 43%, with collection at ...

    • Harsha de Silva: Multidimensional poverty 

      FactCheck.lk;P0091
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/14/2023)
      PARTLY TRUE: The World Bank states that the poverty level which was at 13% in 2019 has by today, increased to at least 25%. The multidimensional Poverty Vulnerability of Oxford University and UNDP (sic) states that when ...

    • Anura Kumara Dissanayaka: Increase in debt during yahapaalanaya 

      FactCheck.lk;P0090
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 12/7/2023)
      FALSE: When Ranil Wickremesinghe came to power in 2015, our debt was LKR 8.5 trillion […] In 2020, the country’s debt […] stood at LKR 15 trillion […] Approximately, Ranil’s five years put the country more in debt by LKR ...

    • Gayantha Karunatilleka: Students-to-academic staff ratio 

      FactCheck.lk;P0089
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/30/2023)
      FALSE: Although the number of academic staff is dwindling [in recent months], the annual intake of students at universities has doubled since 2017. Gayantha Karunatilleka, NewsFirst, 19 October 2023

    • Sunanda Madduma Bandara: Local Government elections 

      FactCheck.lk;P0088
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/23/2023)
      FALSE: […] all the local government elections held after 1991 have been postponed without being held within the stipulated time. […] Sunanda Madduma Bandara, Lankadeepa, 25 October 2023

    • Ranil Wickremesinghe: Money printing 

      FactCheck.lk;P0087
      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 11/9/2023)
      TRUE: We put the Central Bank there [in charge] without meddling in it. Henceforth, according to the law, we won’t be able to print money. We have lost our ability to borrow (obtain loans) from the Bank of Ceylon and the ...

    • Syndicated Surveys: Taxing EPF Returns (October 2023) 

      Econ Team (2023-11)
      77% of Sri Lankan adults think that the government’s decision to reduce returns on the retirement savings in the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), in the pursuit of domestic debt restructuring (DDR), was not necessary and/or ...

    • Syndicated Surveys: Easter Sunday Attacks (October 2023) 

      Econ Team (2023-11)
      More than half the Sri Lankan population – 53% – believes local political forces were involved in the Easter Sunday attacks carried out in 2019, according to a survey commissioned in October by Syndicated Surveys. 53% ...

    • Syndicated Surveys: Online Safety Bill (October 2023) 

      Econ Team (2023-10)
      In a survey commissioned by Verité Research, 56% of those who said they knew about the Online Safety Bill also said it will reduce the freedom of using social media. To the question ‘the government introduced a bill to ...

    • Any president can contest a third term – if 18A is valid 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 18 - November 2014
      de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan       (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 ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Tourism and Lands 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-06)
      On December 6, 2023, during the 13th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Tourism and Lands were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-02)
      On December 2, 2023, during the 10th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms were passed. This infographic further highlights ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Industries 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-01)
      On December 1, 2023, during the 9th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Industries were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Ramesh ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Education 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-05)
      On December 5, 2023, during the 12th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Education were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Susil ...

    • Budget 2024 - Committee Stage Debate - Health 

      Parliamentary Research Team (Manthri.lk, 2023-12-05)
      On November 30, 2023, during the 8th day of the Budget 2024 committee stage debate, the Heads pertaining to the Ministry of Health were passed. This infographic further highlights key takeaways from Minister Ramesh Pathirana's ...

    • Will the budget's veil of secrecy be lifted in 2024? 

      Econ Team (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 best kept secret 

      Econ Team (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-11-01)
      The lack of fiscal transparency is a key factor that contributed to the present crisis and loss of credibility of the government, both at home and abroad. Several commitments made by the government in its agreement with ...