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The Budget Is Not Mainly About Money, It’s About Governance
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-10)
Budgeting is a governance process that drives national plans, priorities and policy. While much of that is reflected in the content of the budget, important governance aspects are also reflected in the budgeting process. ...
The Exporting Problem of SMEs: Finance is one solution
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09)
Since the turn of the century, not only have Sri Lankan exports declined as a share of its GDP, but also in terms of its global share. Sri Lanka had a larger global share of exports at Independence, than at present. There ...
Economic mismanagement is a governance problem – it needs governance solutions
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-05-11)
Elected officials and selected bureaucrats are given a huge amount of power to act on behalf of the public – modern democracies function on this basis: that citizens hand over their power to elected representatives. But ...
Fixing NTBs between India and Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-08)
The Insight examines the issue of non-tarrif barriers (NTBs) faced by exporters of processed foods from Sri Lanka to India, in the context of ensuring compliance with standards and regulations. It concludes with proposing ...
The Economics of Media Freedom: is Sri Lanka on a virtuous or vicious cycle?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-10)
This article explains the economic importance of media freedom by considering three reasons: i) indicative reasons; ii) instrumental reasons; and iii) integral reasons. Media freedom is indicatively important because it ...
Sri Lanka’s Economic Competitiveness: A Microcosm of its Politics?
(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. ...
Parliament should have a formula for regulating cigarettes
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-06)
Variations in the tobacco excise tax affects Rs. 10s of billions in government revenue. Taxation and pricing have been inconsistent. This insight explains how the lack of a consistent method allows wide discretion to ...
Trade in Services: Unearthing the devil in the details
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-04-06)
In 2016, Sri Lanka began its first round of negotiations on an Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ECTA) with India. This envisages liberalising trade in services. The lack of information on what was being ...
Trade in Services: Sri Lanka needs to pull up its socks
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-09)
Two previous Verité Insights titled “Sri Lanka missing world’s biggest trade party and its in her backyard” & “Trade Agreements that don’t deliver the goods” published in May and June 2013 pointed out that Sri Lanka is ...
Economics of the broken window is applicable to corruption
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-03-04)
The Sirisena presidency and the UNP that championed it have been endorsed by the ballot with the hope that they will take action against the rampant corruption that was felt to be hurting the public welfare under the ...