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Financing Infrastructure: The (Non) Concessionality of Concessional Loans
(2020-06)
Sri Lanka is highly dependent on international loans from multilateral and bilateral sources to finance infrastructure development. Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka ...
Navigating Sri Lanka's Debt: Better reporting can help – a case study on China debt = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ණය කළමනාකරණයට නිවැරදි වාර්තාකරණයේ වැදගත්කම – චීන ණය පිළිබඳ සිද්ධි අධ්යයනයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-02)
The published information on debt underestimates Sri Lanka’s overall external public debt burden and its distribution amongst external lenders. This problem arises because Sri Lanka’s reporting of external debt is limited ...
Financing Infrastructure: The (non) concessionality of concessional loans (Presentation)
(2020-09-10)
Multilateral and bilateral borrowing is often favoured by governments such as Sri Lanka because such financing tends to have ‘concessional’ elements, relative to the international financial markets. However, the cost ...
Impact of FOREX Crisis and Solutions for the National Economy
(Verité Research, 2022-01)
This presentation assesses the reasons for the current unprecedented crisis and the how the current crisis differs from the previous crisis Sri Lanka has been in. This presentation also assesses, the solutions for the ...
Sri Lanka’s Fitch Credit Rating Has Been Downgraded 7 Times During the Last 7 years (May 2015 – May 2022)
(2022-05)
Sri Lanka’s credit rating has been downgraded 7 times over the course of 7 years. 5 of those downgrades occurred since April 2020. In contrast, its regional peers have maintained their credit ratings. The recent downgrade ...
Gender Responsive Budgeting: Evaluating Key Performance Indicators
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-07-01)
Sri Lanka’s performance in enhancing gender equality has consistently remained poor in the past decade. A previous analysis by Verité Research showed that Sri Lanka’s declining rank on the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) ...
The Debt Digest - March 2023
(Colombo: Daily Mirror, 2023-03-16)
The Debt Digest by Verité Research provides analytical commentary on the latest developments in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis. A key milestone in Sri Lanka’s path to recovery was the staff-level agreement with the IMF in September ...
Composition of Sri Lanka's Gross Official Reserves
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-04-05)
The reported gross official reserves as of February 2022 stood at USD 2,311 MN, out of which 98% (USD 2,242 MN) consisted of short-term swaps maturing within 12 months. Whilst the quantity of reserves is important it is ...
Public Report on the 2021 Budget: Assessment on Whether the Expenditure Allocations and Taxation Policies are in Line with the Governments Policy
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03)
This report will assist the public and other stakeholders in understanding the adequacy, credibility and prioritisation of the government’s expenditure allocations and taxation policies and the extent to which these are ...
Is the Pandemic the Sole Cause for the Depletion in Sri Lanka’s Foreign Reserves?
(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 ...