Browsing VR Insights by Author "de Mel, Nishan"
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Any president can contest a third term – if 18A is valid
VR Insights;Vol. 2, No. 18 - November 2014
de Mel, Nishan; Gunatilleke, Gehan (Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11)This INSIGHT discusses the eligibility of twice-elected Sri Lankan presidents to contest a third term. It demonstrates that the textual arguments claiming to disqualify such presidents are mistaken: first, because an ... -
Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”?
VR Insights;Vol. 3, No. 13
de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)In February 2015 the Central Bank of Sri Lanka called an auction for one billion rupees on a 30 year bond. It then accepted 10 fold – 10 billion rupees – after the bids were in. This Insight identifies three errors in the ... -
Cigarette Tax Indexation, Getting It Right and Getting It Wrong
Verité Insights;Vol. 4, No. 1
de Mel, Nishan; Guruge, Aneesha (2019-08)The article tackles the cigarette tax indexation policy introduced with Sri Lanka’s 2019 Budget: where annual increases to the cigarette excise tax (a tax exclusive to cigarettes) will be based on inflation and income ... -
Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020, if Indexation Is Implemented=දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අය කරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක්
Verité Insights;Vol 8, No. 2
Atapattu, Udahiruni; de Mel, Nishan; Munas, Hasna (Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06-01)The government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette ... -
Making Public Data Public: Sri Lanka Misses its Own Targets While India Races Ahead
Verité Insights;Vol. 09, No. 04
Razick, Salma; Munas, Hasna; de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-07)The Department of Census and Statistics aims to be the ‘leader in the region’ in producing and providing timely statistical information. However, this insight shows, it has failed in providing public access to data in three ... -
මහ බැංකුවේ තිස් අවුරුදු බැඳුම්කර ඛේදවාචකය: ‘අහිමි වූයේ‘ කුමක් ද? = Central Bank’s 30 year Bond Debacle: What is the “Loss”?
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de Mel, Nishan (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-07)In February 2015 the Central Bank of Sri Lanka called an auction for one billion rupees on a 30 year bond. It then accepted 10 fold – 10 billion rupees – after the bids were in. This Insight identifies three errors in the ...