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A Win-Win Solution for Management and Workers in the Tea industry
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-03)Pareto Efficiency is an important concept in economics. It occurs when all win-win opportunities have been fully pursued. In societies as well as in organisations there are numerous opportunities to make changes that leave ... -
Do Women and Minorities Face Glass Ceilings in Employment
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-05)Does employment data in Sri Lanka unearth a hidden story of discrimination? Do women and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka encounter a glass ceiling that prevents them climbing the ladder of employment in the private sector ... -
Sri Lanka is missing the world’s biggest trade party, and it’s in her backyard = ගෝලීය මහා වෙළඳ සාජ්ජය තම ගෙවත්තෙහිම සමරද්දී ශ්රී ලංකාව හුදෙකලා වේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-05-29)This Insight uses regional data to highlight how poorly Sri Lanka is doing in terms of signing Free Trade Agreements (FTA) compared to other Asian countries, despite being a regional pioneer in this area in the early 2000s. ... -
The Tea Industry: A New Sustainability Approach
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-09)What do unions do? In a landmark title by this name (1984), Harvard University economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff demonstrated that labour unions have two faces. One is confrontational and the other is cooperative. ... -
Trade agreements that don’t deliver the goods = ප්රතිලාභ හිඟ වූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වෙළඳ ගිවිසුම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-19)Sri Lanka faces two problems in relation to trade agreements. First is the quantity of trade agreements and second is the quality. This insight analyses the second problem of the low quality of Sri Lanka's trade agreements. ... -
The Economy is Growing, but Where are the Jobs? = රැකියා උත්පාදනයක් නොමැති ආර්ථික වෘද්ධියක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-26)The Sri Lankan economy is reported to have grown by 6.4 percent in 2012. This was less than what was hoped, but still a robust level of growth. In 2010 and 2011 growth was an extremely healthy 8 percent and 8.2 percent. ... -
Justice in Slow Motion Corrodes Sri Lanka's Economy
(2013-07)The Insight discusses three aspects regarding the inherent lengthy delays in the Sri Lankan court system. First, delays in dispute resolution are costly—and not merely in legal fees, but in investments and initiatives ... -
The post war growth bump has hit the ceiling = සාමයෙහි කඩතුරාවට වැසුනු ආර්ථික වෘද්ධිය ගැටලුකාරී ගමන් මගක
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08)This article explores the question of whether Sri Lanka could expect higher sustained GDP growth post-war and concludes that the post-war bump-up is over for the time being. It suggests that the high growth is unsustainable ... -
Reducing Trade Deficit: Is the government jousting with toothpicks? = වෙළඳ හිඟය අඩු කිරීම : රාජ්ය ප්රතිපත්තියෙහි මඟහැරුනු ඉසව්වන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08-07)Sri Lanka has high trade deficits. And, instead of shrinking, they are increasing over the years. The current government policy, based on import substitution, will not be able to solve this serious problem. This Insight ... -
Are diaspora workers source of Lanka’s growth? = දේශීය පදනමක් මත පල නොදැරූ මෑත කාලීන ආර්ථික වෘද්ධිය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08-28)Post-war Sri Lanka has been looking prosperous, with high GDP growth numbers. This Insight delves into the data to examine where exactly the growth stems from within the three main sectors into which all of GDP is categorised: ... -
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 ... -
Can the Singapore Chinthanaya work for Sri Lanka? = සිංගප්පූරු චින්තනය ශ්රී ලංකාවට පූර්වාදර්ශයක් විය හැකිද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-10)Singapore is a classic example of an Asian country that avoided the middle-income trap, and it has often been sighted as a model for Sri Lanka. This article substantiates the claim that there is neither a theoretical nor ... -
Is the Eco-system of Sri Lankan Economy Unfriendly to Women? = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන ආර්ථික රාමුව කාන්තාවන්ට හිතකාමීද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-10-02)This Insight analyses data to show three problems facing women in the Sri Lankan economy. These are that (i) women tend to choose working abroad to working in Sri Lanka when they seek employment; (ii) when women do work ... -
Export economics beyond the ‘white underwear’ = සුදු යටඇඳුමින් එහා ගිය අපනයන ආර්ථිකයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-11-12)Exports from Sri Lanka are thrice cursed. They are declining as a share of global exports, as a percentage of Sri Lankan GDP, and also in absolute value. The apparel sector accounts for 52% of Sri Lanka’s total export ... -
‘Cess’ – End the Deception and Build ‘Street Lights’ = අර්බුදයට යන ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සෙස් බදු ක්රමය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-11-27)In Sri Lanka, ‘Cess’ is the name given to a special tax imposed on sales, where the revenue is earmarked for a specific fund with a particular economic purpose. This article discusses how the government has stymied export ... -
Sri Lanka’s Trade Liberalisation: What you see is NOT what you get
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-01-08)Sri Lanka’s 2014 Budget claims a continuous commitment by the government to maintain a liberal, consistent and simple trade regime. The budget speech puts it this way: “A four band tariff structure presently in place is ... -
Who Bleeds for the Budget? = අය හීන රාජ්ය මුල්යයෙහි මුල්බැස ගත් ගැටලු
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-03-05)Previous Verité Insights have documented the “long-procrastination” in the achievements of targets set out in the budget. The mismatch between expectation and reality has been particularly a problem in the area of government ... -
Policy Needed on Environment: REDD+ is a plus
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-03-14)The prime minister of Sri Lanka made a policy statement on 5th November 2013 to indicate the future priorities of the new government. It had over 70 inspirational statements indicating a wide array of issues and subjects ... -
Solving the dilemma of export diversification
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-03-19)Sri Lanka’s exports are flagging in two ways: first, the exports to GDP ratio is on the decline; second, Sri Lanka’s share in world exports is on the decline. The second is important in understanding the problem: it tells ... -
TAs with India and China: Potential for Sri Lanka
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04)Sri Lanka has various levels of trade agreements (TAs) with both India and China. A new TA with China was mooted in 2014 and the appetite for that continues in the new presidency and policy context of 2015. While statistics ...