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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 ...
Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020, if Indexation Is Implemented=දර්ශකයකට අනුව දුම්වැටි බදු අය කරන්නට කටයුතු කලොත්, 2020දී, රජයට රුපියල් බිලියන 20ක අමතර ආදායමක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-06-01)
The government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette ...
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 ...
State Funding for Maternity Leave in Sri Lanka - A No-brainer
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2020-09)
Women in the 20-39 age cohort are uniquely and severely disadvantaged in the labour market in Sri Lanka. This disadvantage is linked to the current policy of placing the full cost of maternity leave benefits (MLBs) on ...
De-mystifying Increase in Sri Lanka’s Debt
(Verité Research, 2022-02)
In the last 70 years, Sri Lanka has never been in a more precarious position with regard to the repayment of its debt, than at present, in December 2021. There is much that is said in the media about the increase in Sri ...
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 ...
Cigarette Taxation Formula - The Cost of Forgetting
(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 ...
Retirement Funds Face Regressive Taxation in Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2023-09)
In September 2023, Sri Lanka became the only country to restructure local currency debt by exclusively targeting retirement savings funds, excluding all others. This was justified by claiming that retirement savings were ...