Browsing Public Seminars by Author "de Mel, Nishan"

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    • Cigarette Tax Indexation in Budget 2019 

      de Mel, Nishan; Guruge, Aneesha (Colombo: Verité Research, 2019-07-17)
      The presentation discusses the cigarette tax indexation that was implemented by Sri Lanka’s Budget for 2019 (released in March). This indexation solved 2 problems of cigarette tax revisions in Sri Lanka—they were both too ...

    • Financing Infrastructure: The (non) concessionality of concessional loans (Presentation) 

      de Mel, Nishan (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 

      Rajkulendran, Raj Prabu; de Mel, Nishan (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 ...