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    • A Win-Win Solution for Management and Workers in the Tea industry 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-03)
      Pareto Efficiency is an important concept in economics. It occurs when all win-win opportunities have been fully pursued. In societies as well as in organisations there are numerous opportunities to make changes that leave ...

    • Fixing Sri Lanka’s Revenue Problem is a Priority 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-02-10)
      Taxes are the key source of government revenue. Normally, tax share as a percentage of GDP is expected to increase as per capita GDP rises. This Insight shows that in Sri Lanka, this is not the case; the country’s per ...

    • Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis 

      TMA Special Report; Vol. 2, No. 1
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07)
      This brief provides a detailed analysis of  Sri Lanka's  trade performance during 2013 and the first quarter of 2014. The review highlights the external and internal drivers that shaped Sri Lanka's external trade developments. ...

    • Sri Lanka: International Trade - Performance and Prognosis 

      TMA Special Report;Vol. 1. No. 1
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-11)
      This brief analyses Sri Lanka's international trade with special reference to its trade deficit, apparel sector and tea exports. It also analyses and evaluates the policies and structural issues Sri Lanka's trade faces.

    • Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”? 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 13
      de Mel, Nishan       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)
      In February 2015 the Central Bank of Sri Lanka called an auction for one billion rupees on a 30 year bond. It then accepted 10 fold – 10 billion rupees – after the bids were in. This Insight identifies three errors in the ...

    • Sri Lanka’s international borrowing costs are not declining 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 19
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11)
      The government first raised international debt through bonds in October 2007. Since then several international bonds have been issued to feed the government’s twin demands: financing its spending and propping up foreign ...

    • Cigarette Taxes Need Parliament’s Oversight 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-06-02)
      Every year, on the 31st of May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners mark World No Tobacco Day. This day is set apart to highlight the health risks associated with tobacco use and to advocate for effective ...

    • Trademark Registration: From Colombo to Madrid 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-11-30)
      The Madrid Protocol is a global mechanism for registering trademarks outside one’s home country. It reduces the time, inconvenience and cost incurred by companies attempting to ensure international recognition and protection ...

    • Fixing NTBs between India and Sri Lanka 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 15
      Nathaniel, Vidya; Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-08)
      The Insight examines the issue of non-tarrif barriers (NTBs) faced by exporters of processed foods from Sri Lanka to India, in the context of ensuring compliance with standards and regulations. It concludes with proposing ...

    • Parliament should have a formula for regulating cigarettes 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 11
      Fernando, Nilangika       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-06)
      Variations in the tobacco excise tax affects Rs. 10s of billions in government revenue. Taxation and pricing have been inconsistent. This insight explains how the lack of a consistent method allows wide discretion to ...

    • Reviving Exports: The Relevance of Export Finance=අපනයන ප්‍රවර්ධනය සදහා අපනයන මූල්‍යකරණ පහසුකම්වල ඇති වැදගත්කම 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 16
      Fernando, Nilangika; Gnanasampanthen, Revathy       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09)
      This Insight analyses the importance of export finance as a tool to facilitate and promote exports in Sri Lanka. It identifies the bottlenecks that prevent effective use of export finance in the country and provides ...

    • Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (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 ...

    • USD 20 billion export target by 2020: Aiming to be mediocre 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 13
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-08)
      In 2014, the government set an 'ambitious' target to increase exports to USD 20 billion by 2020. The Insight argues that this target is rather mediocre and yet, even with such a low bar, it is out of Sri Lanka's reach. ...

    • What caused Europe to ban the import of fish from Sri Lanka? 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 1
      Gunatilleke, Gehan; Nathaniel, Vidya; Mohammed, Rehana       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-02)
      In January 2015, the European Commission banned the import of Sri Lankan fisheries products for violating guidelines on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing. This Insight suggests that the ban was triggered by the ...

    • Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (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 ...

    • Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-02-26)
      Tea sector wage negotiations periodically go into deadlock. There are political reasons for this situation, but also an overarching economic one: global tea prices have declined – as it periodically happens – and the ...

    • Sri Lanka’s post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy 

      VR Insights;Vol. 4, No. 01
      Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
      Sri Lanka has been driving post-war growth in boom and bust cycles on the trade deficit; and fiscal measures have been used, especially spending on construction, to offset the bust cycles. This insight explains how this ...

    • Exports to India – Putting the free back into the FTA 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 14
      Munas, Hasna; Nathaniel, Vidya       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)
      Sri Lanka’s history with bi-lateral trade agreements demonstrates the need for more careful negotiation. This Insight explains how the tariff benefits of the India Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) have been outweighed ...

    • Explaining the Mirage of GDP Growth Optimism 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 14
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-08)
      The government estimates that by 2015 per capita GDP will quadruple from what it was in 2004. But this is a mirage: real incomes will not even double in that period. The mirage is created by counting in US dollars and ...

    • Are Sri Lanka’s exports to India overdependent on concessions? 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-05-26)
      Sri Lanka’s exports as a share of GDP has declined from 33% in 2000 to 13% in 2015. One of the solutions has been to diversify Sri Lanka’s markets. This is because over 50% of Sri Lanka’s exports go to the EU and the United ...