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Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-02-26)
Tea sector wage negotiations periodically go into deadlock. There are political reasons for this situation, but also an overarching economic one: global tea prices have declined – as it periodically happens – and the ...
Sri Lanka’s post war growth: Still stuck in an unsustainable strategy
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-01)
Sri Lanka has been driving post-war growth in boom and bust cycles on the trade deficit; and fiscal measures have been used, especially spending on construction, to offset the bust cycles. This insight explains how this ...
Fixing Sri Lanka’s Revenue Problem is a Priority
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2017-02-10)
Taxes are the key source of government revenue. Normally, tax share as a percentage of GDP is expected to increase as per capita GDP rises. This Insight shows that in Sri Lanka, this is not the case; the country’s per ...
The new Ministers of Finance: Will their budget keep its promises?
(Colombo: Verite Research, 2017-08)
An analysis of past budgets revel large deviations between budgeted allocations and actual expenditure. This shows that expectations set by the government during the budget speech are not honoured. This Insight analyses ...
විශ්වාසනීයත්වයෙන් යුතු අයවැයක් සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ විචාරාත්මක මැදිහත්වීම ශක්තිමත් කිරීම
(කොළඹ: වෙරිටේ, 2015-01)
Good Governance is Not Just for Politicians: Case for cigarette taxation=යහපාලනය දේශපාලකයන් සඳහා පමණක් නොවෙයි; දුම්වැටි බදුකරණයට නතු කිරීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-04-22)
The Excise taxes on products such as cigarettes and alcohol are a significant source of government revenue. Understanding how these taxes should be adjusted in keeping with price increases and being diligent in implementing ...
More of the Same: Budget 2016 increases protection and dependence on trade taxes
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-12-08)
Sri Lanka was amongst the early movers in trade and economic liberalisation in South Asia. However, this initiative was somewhat backtracked upon in the past 10 years. This insight points out that, despite the claims, the ...
Sri Lanka Losing Ground in Investment and Trade Freedoms
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-09-29)
This Insight shows two worrying trends in the Trade and Investment Freedoms of Sri Lanka, using the 2015 Index of Global Economic Freedom to derive the analysis. First is that although the country’s Investment and Trade ...
Strengthening Parliament Critical for Credible Budgets
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-12)
Sri Lanka’s budgets show considerable variation between publicly declared budget allocations and actual expenditure on line items. This gap can create a credibility problem. There is a specific section in Sri Lankan laws ...
Sri Lanka’s Tourism: Competing with the region
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-05-20)
This Insight looks at a different dimension of the problem of growing tourism in Sri Lanka using the World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) to derive the analysis. This global index assesses ...