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Cigarette Taxation Formula - The Cost of Forgetting

Verité Insights;Vol. 10, No. 02
Perera, Ashvin; Haniffa, Hafsa (Colombo: Verité Research, 2022-05)

In 2019 the government took a step in the right direction by introducing an indexation policy where taxes on cigarettes was proposed to be adjusted in line with GDP and inflation. Previous insights show that the foregone ...
Organic Fertiliser Transition in Sri Lanka: Farmers Were Providing an Early Warning of a Food Shortage = ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කාබනික පොහොර වෙතට මාරු වීමට දැරූ ප්‍රයත්නය: ගොවීන්ගෙන් ආහාර හිඟයක් පිළිබඳ පූර්ව අනතුරු ඇඟවීමක්

Verite Insights;Vol 9, No 05.වෙරිටේ විදසුන්;09 වෙළුම, 05 කාණ්ඩය
Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Amarasekara, Pumudika; Fernando, Rathika; Perera, Ashvin (Verité Research, 2021-09)

Sri Lanka introduced a ban on chemical fertiliser importation, and a shift to organic fertiliser starting April 2021. As existing stocks were beginning to deplete Verité Research conducted a survey in July to capture the ...