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    • Improving Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in Sri Lanka: Insights and Strategies 

      Verité Research (Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06)
      Building on the Youth Labour Market Assessment published by Verité Research in 2018, this report focuses on a series of specific issues that represent key barriers to increasing youth employment and youth employability in ...

    • Ineffectiveness of Social Contacts and Alternate Job Search Methods for Unemployed Youth in Sri Lanka [Working Paper] 

      Verité Research Working Paper Series;June 2020/01
      Perera, Mihindu       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06)
      Sri Lankan youth due to an extended period of unemployment face a lower possibility in future employment and a reduced earning capacity. As a solution, this paper aims to identify an efficient search method. Emphasis is ...

    • Infrastructure Watch 2023: Infographics 

      Pabasara, Chathuni (Colombo: Verité Research, 2023-09-06)
      Section 9 of the RTI Act No. 12 of 2016 mandates the Minister responsible for an infrastructure project to must disclose project information. In 2022, Verité Research assessed government compliance with the RTI Act's ...

    • Interest payments weigh heaviest in 2022! 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-07-24)
      The central bank's annual report for 2022 reveals that interest payments have reached their highest level. This increase in interest payments suggests a significant debt burden on the government. The ratio of interest ...

    • Interim Budget or Secret Budget? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)
      The Ministry of Defense was specified as an implementing agency for two reasons. 1) to establish STEM focused branch campuses. STEM refers to approach of learning that integrates the areas of science, technology, engineering ...

    • Interim Budget or Secret Budget? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-03)
      24 expenditure proposals and 5 regulatory proposals were tracked in this assessment. Expenditure proposals refer to those proposals that involve capital expenditure by the government distributed across ministries etc. ...

    • International Women's Day 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-03-08)
      In Sri Lanka women are half as likely to enter the labour market, and twice as likely to be unemployed than men. 82% of the unemployment for women comes from between the ages of 20 and 40. This is almost seven times the ...

    • Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?: Concern on Budget Deficits 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-16)
      Besides 2017 and 2018, Sri Lanka’s annual Primary Balance has consistently been a deficit with 2021 reporting the largest deficit of 6 percent. Maldives follows a consecutive negative trend in their Primary Balance with ...

    • Is Maldives going down Sri Lanka's path?: Maldives is increasingly finding it difficult to cover recurrent expenditure 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-08-17)
      Since 1983, Sri Lanka has faced the continuous challenge of its revenue falling short of covering recurrent expenditure. Subsequently, when looking at Maldives’s fiscal performance it seems to echo Sri Lanka’s trajectory. ...

    • Is Sri Lanka Addicted to Missing Revenue Targets? 

      de Mel, Nishan (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 ...

    • Is the Pandemic the Sole Cause for the Depletion in Sri Lanka’s Foreign Reserves? 

      Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03-10)
      Sri Lanka’s usable foreign reserves fell from USD 7,642 MN in 2019 to USD 1,579 MN by the end of 2021. When compared with Sri Lanka’s regional peers during the pandemic, the decline in its reserves appears to only have ...

    • Large Scale Infrastructure Small Scale Disclosure 

      Public Finance Infographics;Public Finance Infographics;
      Econ Team; Econ Team       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-09-04)
      Despite the Right to Information (RTI) Act’s proactive disclosure requirement, only 18% and 25% of information required to be disclosed on large-scale infrastructure projects were proactively disclosed online in 2022 and ...

    • Logistics and Services in the Sri Lankan Economy 

      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Abeyratne, Sirimal (Manila : Asian Development Bank Institute, 2017-10)
      Authors examine the growth, performance, and policy issues of the Sri Lankan service and logistics sectors. The government has clear priorities for these sectors, building on the country’s locational advantage. The policy ...

    • The lure of Chinese loans : Sri Lanka’s experiment with a special framework to finance its infrastructure investments 

      Verité Research (Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-08)
      China was the leading provider of external finance to Sri Lanka for infrastructure development during 2010-2016 accounting for 37% of the total. Sri Lanka borrowed USD 5,895 million from China for infrastructure development ...

    • The lure of Chinese loans : Sri Lanka’s experiment with a special framework to finance its infrastructure investments - Presentation 

      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Arangala, Mathisha (2022-09-22)
      China was the leading provider of external finance to Sri Lanka for infrastructure development during 2010-2016 accounting for 37% of the total. Sri Lanka borrowed USD 5,895 million from China for infrastructure development ...

    • Mapping of Health Services Sector and the Current National Regulations in Sri Lanka 

      Econ Team, Verité Research (Geneva: CUTS International, 2018-10)
      The note provides an overview of the current structure and status of the health service sector in Sri Lanka (including medical and health services). It also illustrates the challenges faced by, and regulations that govern ...

    • Mapping of Medical Services Sector: Key Figures, Structure, and the Current National Regulations 

      Verité Research (Geneva: CUTS International, 2019-01)
      This note provides information on the medical services sector, along the lines of outpatient services and dental services. It also illustrates the challenges faced by, and regulations that govern the sector.

    • More Than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available 

      Policy Research Working Paper;WPS8588
      Gunawardena, Dileni; King, Elizabeth M.; Valerio, Alexandria       (World Bank Group, 2018-09-19)
      This paper uses measures of cognitive and noncognitive skills in an expanded definition of human capital to examine how schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in ...

    • Natural Disaster Insurance Coverage 

      Fernando, Sachintha; Jayasekera, Vinura (Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-04)
      Despite an increasing number of natural disasters in recent years, Sri Lanka suffers from a limited uptake of natural disaster insurance coverage. Sri Lanka’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are especially vulnerable ...

    • Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better Reporting Can Help – A Case Study on China Debt 

      Nishan, de Mel; Subhashini, Abeysinghe; Mathisha, Arangala (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)
      This brief shows that the failure to factor external debt outside central government agencies leads to an underestimation of Sri Lanka’s debt. This underlying informational problem is illustrated in three sections. The ...