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Gender-based Budgeting for 2024: More Tokenism or True Commitment?
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-12-07)With the committee stage debates on Budget 2024 still ongoing, our interest has been piqued by a term that has gained relatively little attention since it was mentioned in the Budget Speech presented on 13 November 2023: ... -
Zoned Out: Export Ambitions Hindered by Land Limitations
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-10-12)The experiences of East Asian and Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, show that foreign direct investment (FDI) into export-oriented sectors is critical to accelerate growth in manufactured ... -
The Troubling Lack of Compliance by Public Authorities With RTI Act
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-09-28)Today (28 September) marks the international day for universal access to information. This year’s theme is ‘the importance of the online space for access to information'. Public access to information is an essential element ... -
Schrodinger’s Banks: The Immediate Need for Policies to Ensure Financial Stability
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-09-14)Sri Lanka is entering into a new, dangerous phase in its economic recovery. Although macroeconomic stabilisation has made progress, financial stabilisation needs immediate attention. The combination of covid-era loans and ... -
Large Scale Infrastructure, Small Scale Disclosure: Fertile Ground for Corruption
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-08-31)Large sums of money borrowed for large infrastructure projects is a key contributor to Sri Lanka’s Mountain of foreign debt, which the country is struggling to pay back. Lack of transparency, coupled with poor governance ... -
Too Many ‘Known Unknowns’ in Sri Lanka’s IMF Programme
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-08-17)Sri Lanka’s programme is planned to deliver 71 outcomes by the end of September. Presently, as of the end of July, 35 are “met” and 14 are “unknown”. There are 8 more that are “not met”. That means the ratio of unknowns ... -
Another Export Target Destined to Be Missed?
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-08-03)In a recent statement, Sri Lanka's Export Development Board (EDB) announced plans to secure USD 31.3 billion revenue from total exports (both goods and services) by 2027. The EDB expects to double goods export revenue from ... -
The Best Next Step for Improving Tax Collection
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-07-21)In 2021, the country’s tax revenue as a share of gross domestic product (GDP)reached its lowest level since 1959 – dropping to just 8%. Increasing tax-to-GDP ratio is one of the most important measures of Sri Lanka’s ability ... -
Calculating the Loss to the EPF From Proposed DDR
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-07-12)Justice and good decision-making flows in part, from the discipline of public reasoning. The belief in democracy is anchored in the hope of harnessing the power of reasoned decision making that is openly and dialogically ... -
Let’s Shield the EPF With the Instincts of Winston Churchill
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-07-06)The private sector workers of Sri Lanka are required by law to transfer 23% of their incomes to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF) every month, towards their retirement savings. The EPF ... -
Why Does Sri Lanka Claim it Has Less Capacity Than Least Developed Countries for Trade Facilitation?
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-06-22)Higher costs and time resulting from opaque, complex, time consuming, manual export and and import procedures discourage businesses from engaging in international trade and undermine their international competitiveness. ... -
Restructuring Domestic Debt Must Be Credible, Fast, Comprehensive
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-06-08)With the possibility of restructuring domestic debt increasing, there are concerns about the impact of such a restructuring on the financial markets. A limited restructuring, in which only government debt held by the Central ... -
30% of IMF Programme Commitments Due in April Not Met
(2024-05-16)By the end of April 2024, Sri Lanka has not met 30% of its due commitments, which translates to a total of 19 unfulfilled obligations. The majority of these unmet commitments pertain to enhancing transparency and enacting ... -
The Need for Governance-Linked State-Contingent IMF Programmes: A Third Way for Sri Lanka
(Colombo: DailyFT, Colombo: Daily Mirror, Online: International Banker, 2023-04-27)The recent sovereign default of Sri Lanka has once again brought attention to the effectiveness of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility (EFF) approach. This programmes provides loans of short ... -
Why Tracking the IMF Programme Implementation is of Public Interest
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-05-25)As Sri Lanka enters its 17th International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, a critical question remains. Will the country break from the past patterns of inconsistency and failure in following the plan it lays out with the ... -
ETCA With India: Time to Shift Focus From Market Integration to Supply Chain Integration
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-04-27)This article looks at; 1) what are global supply chains and why do they matter; 2) how new trade deals are focusing more on supply chain resilience than market access; 3) how current trade deals with India are focused on ... -
මරණය, මාර්ගගත ලිංගික අතවර සහ මරණ දඬුවම පිළිබඳ හැඟීම් කළඹවන සුළු වාර්තාකරණ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09)In September 2023, Sinhala newspapers Dinamina, Mawbima, Lankadeepa, Divaina and Aruna published articles which sensationalised the different incidents which had occurred. On the 5th of September, Dinamina, Mawbima, ... -
උතුරු නැගෙනහිර හර්තාල්, මේ පිළිබඳව වාර්තා කළ සහ වාර්තා නොකළ රූපවාහිනී පුවත් විකාශ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-25)On April 25th 2023, the government media outlets Rupavahini and ITN did not report on a hartal/strike that took place in the northeast province in protest against the government's proposed anti-terrorism act on their ... -
"හිටපු කොටියා" ද? විත්තිකරුවෙක් ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-07)On 7th April 2023, an article published in the Divaina newspaper used the term “Hitapu Kotiya” to describe a suspect who was allegedly a former member of the LTTE and had been released from a court case regarding drugs. ... -
එක් සිදුවීමක්, සහෝදර පුවත්පත් දෙකක් වාර්තා දෙකක්?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-04-26)On 26th April 2024 an article published in the Mawbima newspaper used the term "Malkakula" to describe a minor who died from a paracetamol overdose, which sensationalises the incident. The infographic also included the ...