Browsing by Subject "Sri Lanka"

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    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Civil Society In Sight but Out of Mind 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report;No. 3
      Politics Team       (Colombo, Verite Research Pvt. Ltd., 2015-03)
      Verité Research conducted interviews with 22 members of civil society organizations to assess the quantity and quality of research on the subject of domestic workers’ rights in Sri Lanka. While measuring and evaluating ...

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Employers Survey 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report; No. 2
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Kumarage, Aloka       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-03)
      VR conducted a survey among domestic workers and employers of domestic workers in Sri Lanka during the period of March to June 2014 and analysed the findings in terms of domestic workers' working standards, wages and ...

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers, An Analysis of the Legal and Policy Framework 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report;No. 1
      Legal Team       (Colombo, Verite Research Pvt. Ltd., 2015-03)
      This report analyses the legal and policy frameworks applicable to domestic workers in Sri Lanka. The report uses global standards of decent work to offer a fresh perspective on the problem and aims to outline a strategy ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • Trading with China: Challenges and Policy Issues faced by MSMEs 

      Econ Team, Verité Research (Geneva: CUTS International, 2018-07)
      The note illustrates the views of, and challenges faced by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in exporting to China, with a focus on China’s trade policy and trade standards that may have hindered exports.