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Are Sri Lanka’s exports to India overdependent on concessions?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-05-26)
Sri Lanka’s exports as a share of GDP has declined from 33% in 2000 to 13% in 2015. One of the solutions has been to diversify Sri Lanka’s markets. This is because over 50% of Sri Lanka’s exports go to the EU and the United ...
Cigarette Taxes Need Parliament’s Oversight
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-06-02)
Every year, on the 31st of May, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners mark World No Tobacco Day. This day is set apart to highlight the health risks associated with tobacco use and to advocate for effective ...
Trademark Registration: From Colombo to Madrid
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-11-30)
The Madrid Protocol is a global mechanism for registering trademarks outside one’s home country. It reduces the time, inconvenience and cost incurred by companies attempting to ensure international recognition and protection ...
Exchange rate management: politics trumps professionalism
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01-26)
Most people in a country don’t understand the intricacies of exchange rate management. Nevertheless, actions in this regard have significant implications for the economic stability, growth and overall success of the economy, ...
Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up
(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 post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy
(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 ...
Economic mismanagement is a governance problem – it needs governance solutions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-05-11)
Elected officials and selected bureaucrats are given a huge amount of power to act on behalf of the public – modern democracies function on this basis: that citizens hand over their power to elected representatives. But ...
Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-04-06)
In 2016, Sri Lanka began its first round of negotiations on an Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ECTA) with India. This envisages liberalising trade in services. The lack of information on what was being ...
Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-09)
Two previous Verité Insights titled “Sri Lanka missing world’s biggest trade party and its in her backyard” & “Trade Agreements that don’t deliver the goods” published in May and June 2013 pointed out that Sri Lanka is ...