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Quantifying the COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo
(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 ...
Making Public Data Public: Sri Lanka Misses its Own Targets While India Races Ahead
(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 ...
Reducing the Gap in Understanding Sri Lanka’s Gender Gap
(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 ...
Tourism Could Not Have Solved Sri Lanka’s Foreign Exchange Crisis
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2021-09)
A key debate during Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is whether the current dollar shortage is a short-term liquidity problem or a more protracted and systemic issue that requires debt reduction. This insight responds to the ...
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation: What drives the losses?
(Verité Research, 2021-09)
Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is the state-owned enterprise in Sri Lanka with the largest accumulated losses – estimated at LKR 335 billion as of 2020. The analysis finds that the CPC sells fuel at prices higher ...