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    • Quantifying the COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo 

      Verité Insights;
      Dhammapala, Ranil; Basnayake, Ashani       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09-06)
      This Insight quantifies the improvements in air quality in Colombo during periods of Covid19 related restrictions and reveals that the Covid19 restrictions have led to a 60% reduction in the average duration of time that ...

    • Reducing the Gap in Understanding Sri Lanka’s Gender Gap 

      Verité Insights;Vol. 09, No. 01
      Fernando, Sachintha       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-03)
      The World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI) is a composite index that measures the extent of gender-based gaps in and among countries and tracks progress towards reducing these gaps over time. Sri Lanka is ...

    • Retirement Funds Face Regressive Taxation in Sri Lanka 

      Verite Insights;Vol. 12, No.02
      Rajkulendran, Raj Prabu       (Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-09)
      In September 2023, Sri Lanka became the only country to restructure local currency debt by exclusively targeting retirement savings funds, excluding all others. This was justified by claiming that retirement savings were ...

    • Reviving Exports: The Relevance of Export Finance=අපනයන ප්‍රවර්ධනය සදහා අපනයන මූල්‍යකරණ පහසුකම්වල ඇති වැදගත්කම 

      VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 16
      Fernando, Nilangika; Gnanasampanthen, Revathy       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09)
      This Insight analyses the importance of export finance as a tool to facilitate and promote exports in Sri Lanka. It identifies the bottlenecks that prevent effective use of export finance in the country and provides ...

    • Solving the dilemma of export diversification 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-03-19)
      Sri Lanka’s exports are flagging in two ways: first, the exports to GDP ratio is on the decline; second, Sri Lanka’s share in world exports is on the decline. The second is important in understanding the problem: it tells ...

    • Sri Lanka Losing Ground in Investment and Trade Freedoms 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09-29)
      This Insight shows two worrying trends in the Trade and Investment Freedoms of Sri Lanka, using the 2015 Index of Global Economic Freedom to derive the analysis. First is that although the country’s Investment and Trade ...

    • Sri Lanka Tourism: What got us here, won’t get us there 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04-23)
      Sri Lanka has doubled its tourist arrivals since 2010, which is credited to the peaceful environment in the country following the ending of the war together with the ongoing strategic investments in the tourism sector, new ...

    • The Sri Lankan economy needs a better bureaucracy, not just a better Cabinet of Ministers 

      Insights;Vol. 4, No. 01
      Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-05)
      There are several causes to the problems facing Sri Lanka’s economy. The problem of bureaucratic inefficiency is exemplified by this case study: finding information about trade regulations is a significant barrier to ...

    • Sri Lanka’s Competitiveness is Stagnating: Efficiency is the issue 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-10-13)
      The 2015 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) of the World Economic Forum shows that Sri Lanka is ranked 68 out of 140 countries. Compared to last year, Sri Lanka has improved its ranking by five places. This article provides ...

    • Sri Lanka’s Economic Competitiveness: A Microcosm of its Politics? 

      Insight;Vol.5, No. 01
      Fernando, Sachintha       (2018-03)
      The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), ranks the competitiveness of economies. The GCI score is calculated using two types of indicators: objective (or measurable) indicators and sentiment (or subjective) indicators. ...

    • Sri Lanka’s international borrowing costs are not declining 

      VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 19
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11)
      The government first raised international debt through bonds in October 2007. Since then several international bonds have been issued to feed the government’s twin demands: financing its spending and propping up foreign ...

    • Sri Lanka’s post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy 

      VR Insights;Vol. 4, No. 01
      Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
      Sri Lanka has been driving post-war growth in boom and bust cycles on the trade deficit; and fiscal measures have been used, especially spending on construction, to offset the bust cycles. This insight explains how this ...

    • Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-02-26)
      Tea sector wage negotiations periodically go into deadlock. There are political reasons for this situation, but also an overarching economic one: global tea prices have declined – as it periodically happens – and the ...

    • Sri Lanka’s Tourism: Competing with the region 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-05-20)
      This Insight looks at a different dimension of the problem of growing tourism in Sri Lanka using the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) to derive the analysis. This global index assesses ...

    • Sri Lanka’s Trade Liberalisation: What you see is NOT what you get 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-01-08)
      Sri Lanka’s 2014 Budget claims a continuous commitment by the government to maintain a liberal, consistent and simple trade regime. The budget speech puts it this way: “A four band tariff structure presently in place is ...

    • State Funding for Maternity Leave in Sri Lanka - A No-brainer 

      Verité Insights;Vol. 8, No. 1
      Sumanthiran, Shiloh       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-09)
      Women in the 20-39 age cohort are uniquely and severely disadvantaged in the labour market in Sri Lanka. This disadvantage is linked to the current policy of placing the full cost of maternity leave benefits (MLBs) on ...

    • Strengthening Parliament Critical for Credible Budgets 

      Verité Insights;
      Verité Research       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-12)
      Sri Lanka’s budgets show considerable variation between publicly declared budget allocations and actual expenditure on line items. This gap can create a credibility problem. There is a specific section in Sri Lankan laws ...

    • TAs with India and China: Potential for Sri Lanka 

      Verité Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04)
      Sri Lanka has various levels of trade agreements (TAs) with both India and China. A new TA with China was mooted in 2014 and the appetite for that continues in the new presidency and policy context of 2015. While statistics ...

    • The Tea Industry: A New Sustainability Approach 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-09)
      What do unions do? In a landmark title by this name (1984), Harvard University economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff demonstrated that labour unions have two faces. One is confrontational and the other is cooperative. ...

    • Tobacco Policy: Mitigating the Influence of Vested Interests=දුම්කොළ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය: ඇල්මැති පාර්ශ්වයන්ගේ බලපෑම අවම කිරීම 

      Insights;Vol. 5, No. 03
      Fernando, Nilangika; Munas, Hasna       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2018-07)
      Sri Lanka is a signatory to the International Treaty, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control since 2003. It has not yet implemented the provisions relating to protecting tobacco policy from vested interests. This Insight ...