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Revitalising Export Finance for Export Growth
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-06)Since the turn of the century, Sri Lanka’s exports have fared poorly. The share of exports to GDP has steadily declined from 33 per cent to 15 per cent during 2000-2014, and exports have stagnated at around US$10 billion ... -
The Employees’ Provident Fund in Sri Lanka: A Comparative Assessment of the Adequacy of Information Disclosure
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2026-05)This research brief examines transparency gaps in the management of Sri Lanka’s Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), the country’s largest financial institution, and the main retirement savings vehicle for formal private-sector ... -
A Handbook for Professional Journalism: Reporting on Women, Girl-children, and LGBTQIA+ individuals in Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2026-04)This handbook exists to support journalists in recognising recurring patterns in coverage and strengthening professional judgment, so reporting is accurate, fair, and respectful of the people whose lives appear in the news. ... -
Are Women Reaping the Fruits of their Education? = කාන්තාවන් අධ්යාපනයේ නිසි ඵල ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් වී ඇතිද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-10-09)Economic research and theory is quite clear on the ‘returns to education’: education is generally positively correlated with jobs and income levels. However, this insight identifies the problem that in Sri Lanka, this ... -
The Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka - Is it Socialist? = ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය සැබෑ ලෙසම සමාජවාදී ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-05-21)This insight explores the question of whether Sri Lanka is waning in its commitments to social institutions. The analysis shows that while ‘developing’ Asia lags behind the rest of the world in commitments to social ... -
Is Sri Lanka’s Logistics Hub Steaming Ahead? = ශ්රී ලංකාව ක්රමෝපායික කේන්ද්රස්ථානයක් (Logistics Hub) වීමට සාර්ථක ගමනක යෙදෙන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07-02)Sri Lanka clearly has the potential to become a logistics hub. Over the past years, the Colombo port’s capacity has been expanded as a step towards this goal. However, although expanding supply through capacity expansion ... -
Sri Lanka climbs in income and declines in competitiveness = ශ්රී ලංකාව ආදායම් වර්ධනය පිළිබඳ වාර්තා තබද්දී තරගකාරීත්වය තුළ පසුබෑමක
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-09-24)The Global Competitiveness Report is produced by the World Economic Forum and currently compares and ranks the competitiveness landscape of 144 countries. In 2013, Sri Lanka was ranked at 65. This year, in 2014, Sri Lanka ... -
Fishing trespasses: A legal insight for better economics = අනවසර ධීවර ඇතුළුවීම්: යහපත් ආර්ථිකයක් සඳහා නෛතික දැක්මක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11-05)The protracted dispute over fishing in the Palk Bay has been a feature of Indo-Lanka relations for decades. Both India and Sri Lanka regularly arrest fishermen for violating the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL). ... -
Economic Freedom in Sri Lanka: Changes and consequences = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික නිදහස, මෑත කාලීන වෙනස්කම් සහ එහි ප්රතිවිපාක
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-05-07)The US-based Heritage Foundation (HF) has constructed a global index of economic freedom. The HF index uses 10 quantitative indicators that are grouped into four broad categories. (1) Rule of Law (property rights, and ... -
Cigarette taxes should be rescued from bureaucratic discretion = නිලධාරී අභිමතයට හසුවී ඇති සිගරට් මිල ගණන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07-16)The focus of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is on raising taxes on tobacco, in order to raise prices and reduce consumption. This insight explains the serious consistency issues in Sri Lanka on setting taxes and prices ... -
Busting capital expenditure myth = ප්රාග්ධන වියදම පිළිබඳ මිථ්යාවෙහි බිඳවැටීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-02-19)This Insight addresses the capital expenditure (Capex) myth by debunking the idea that Sri Lanka’s economic crises are driven by robust infrastructure spending. Instead, Verité highlights that actual Capex is consistently ... -
Achieving fiscal targets: Long procrastination will continue = බාලගිරි දෝෂයකට හසුවී ඇති අයවැය ඉලක්කයන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-01-22)Sri Lanka’s national budgets reveals a persistent pattern of "long procrastination" in meeting fiscal targets. The government is chronically addicted to missing its budget revenue targets, suffering consistent double-digit ... -
The Post War Winners: Urban rich or the rural poor? = පශ්චාත් යුධ සමයේ ජයග්රාහකයෝ : නාගරික ධනවතුන් ද? ග්රාමීය දුප්පතුන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-02-05)In the post-war years, the UPFA government has professed a commitment to rural development. For example, UPFA’s “Mahinda Chinthana” Development Policy Framework” explicitly recognises the problem of rising inequality and ... -
MPs with Zero Contributions in Parliament - January to April 2026
(Manthri.lk, 2026-06-16)Between January and April 2026, Parliament convened for 26 sitting days. This infographic identifies the seven Members of Parliament who did not make a single contribution during these sessions. -
Run Rate of Passing Laws in Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2026-05-27)This infographic compares legislative activity during the first 18 months of the presidencies of Maithripala Sirisena and Anura Kumara Dissanayake based on the number of bills gazetted, tabled, and enacted into law. The ... -
Labour Leaderboard in Parliament
(Manthri.lk, 2026-05-27)This infographic highlights the top five MPs who contributed to labour discussions in the 10th parliament, as well as the related legislation passed. -
MPs with less than 50% attendance in Parliament - January to April 2026
(Manthri.lk, 2026-05-22)This infographic shows the 12 MPs who attended less than 50% of 26 parliamentary sitting days from January to April 2026, along with the number of days each attended. -
MPs with Perfect Attendance in Parliament - January to April 2026
(Manthri.lk, 2026-05-20)This infographic presents the 21 MPs who achieved 100% attendance during all 26 parliamentary sitting days from January to April 2026. -
வருகை மற்றும் செயல்திறனில் முதல் 5 இடங்களில் பெண் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள்
(Manthri.lk, 2026-05-13)In line with the International Women’s Day on 08 March, Manthri.lk looked at the parliamentary performance and attendance of women MPs in the 10th Parliament. The MPs overall rank is also reflected alongside their top 5 ... -
UNHRC: Measuring Consequences and Implications = 2014 මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිල යෝජනාවලිය හා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාත්යන්තර වෙළඳාම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04-02)Previously, Verité Insights examined the trading relationship between Sri Lanka and the countries that voted for and against the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka both in 2012 and in 2013. In this Insight, the same analysis ...
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