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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 ... -
W(h)ither environmental governance? - Limited access to information undermines meaningful public participation in development projects (Research Brief)
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-06)There is a surge in public agitation against environmental destruction caused by ongoing development projects in Sri Lanka. The surfacing of environmental issues after construction has commenced is highly problematic for ... -
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) ... -
Organic Fertiliser Transition in Sri Lanka: Farmers Were Providing an Early Warning of a Food Shortage = ශ්රී ලංකාව කාබනික පොහොර වෙතට මාරු වීමට දැරූ ප්රයත්නය: ගොවීන්ගෙන් ආහාර හිඟයක් පිළිබඳ පූර්ව අනතුරු ඇඟවීමක්
(Verité Research, 2021-09)Sri Lanka introduced a ban on chemical fertiliser importation, and a shift to organic fertiliser starting April 2021. As existing stocks were beginning to deplete Verité Research conducted a survey in July to capture the ... -
Charting a Path for Debt Sustainability in Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-10)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 ... -
Budget Promises: Beyond Parliament - 2020 End Year Assessment
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2021-10)Due to the absence of a budget speech in 2020, the public finance platform tracked 24 cabinet decisions—a combination of expenditure and regulatory policy decisions—made from January to June 2020. The decisions tracked ... -
Northern Provincial Council: Citizens Budget 2022
(Colombo: UNICEF, 2022)The citizens' budget was essentially a simpler, shorter, and less technical version of the government's budget that was specifically designed after crucial consultation with the public and civil society to present key ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 01 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-01)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ... -
Open Budget Survey 2021 in Context: South Asia
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-02)In an effort to make the Open Budget Survey (OBS) better reflect the views of their civil society partners and respond to requests by stakeholders, including development partners, IBP commissioned a set of regional briefs, ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 01 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-02)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ... -
State of the Budget Report 2022: Assessment on Whether the Expenditure Allocations and Taxation Policies are in Line with the Government’s Policy
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-03)This is the second report in a series of two reports on Sri Lanka's central government budget for the year 2022. The report assesses whether the expenditure allocations and taxation policies are in line with the government's ... -
Desk Research on Alcohol Taxation in Sri Lanka
(Verité Research, 2022-05)This research report is the end product of a desk-based study on alcohol manufacturers in Sri Lanka, their market share, nature of alcohol taxation and policies and the benefits of such alcohol taxation in the country. -
Costs of Doing a Job For Urban Women In Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2022-05)This report addressed a knowledge gap by conducting quantitative surveys and FGDs to estimate monetary & non-monetary “costs of doing a job” for women in Sri Lanka, to understand if it is cost prohibitive to engage in work ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 02 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-06)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 02 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-06)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ... -
Gender-Responsive Budgeting: Evaluating Key Performance Indicators July 2022
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-07)This report highlights the failure of the Sri Lankan government in implementing gender responsive budgeting in Sri Lanka. The case of gender KPIs provides a detailed case study of how poor planning of government policies ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 02 2022 - Who can be the most effective leader for Sri Lanka at this time 2022
(Verité Research, 2022-07-01)This questione answered Who can be the most effective leader for Sri Lanka at this time? Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data ... -
The lure of Chinese loans : Sri Lanka’s experiment with a special framework to finance its infrastructure investments
(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 ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 03 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-10)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ... -
Syndicated Surveys: Mood of the Nation - Round 03 2022 (Press Release)
(Verité Research, 2022-10)Syndicated Surveys by Verité Research which gauge public sentiment on Sri Lankans' various social and political viewpoints. The data is collected through a telephone interview and a nationwide randomised sample of around ...