Verite Research Institutional Knowledge Repository: Recent submissions
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Property Taxes in Sri Lanka: Proposal for a More Effective Valuation Method
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025)This paper focuses on reforming Sri Lanka’s main property tax, commonly known as the rate assessment system, which currently generates only tiny amounts of revenue for local councils. Despite its potential to provide ... -
Verité Research Debt Update - July 2025
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-07-28)This edition analyses Sri Lanka’s final December 2024 debt restructuring deal, highlighting that a significant portion of the debt burden was deferred rather than reduced. Around one-third of the debt service in NPV terms—and ... -
Accountability: Why the Sri Lankan Economy Collapsed and How to Revive it
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-07)This paper argues that the root cause of Sri Lanka’s 2022 economic collapse lies not merely in recent missteps, but in long-standing policies that weakened citizens’ ability to hold their government responsible. Despite ... -
Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul: Measuring the Commercial Debt Burden Created by Concessional Debt
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-02)The paper develops an analytical method and metric for evaluating the extent to which a nation’s budget support commercial debt is necessitated by the obligation to repay concessional project loans of the past. This is ... -
Forensic Audit of Central Bank 2019: Assessment of losses to the EPF
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2025-02)This note examines the bond and equity market forensic audit reports to ascertain the scale of the EPF’s losses in the past. It also highlights a significant underestimation of the actual losses, as the forensic audit ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Monaragala
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Monaragala in the 2024 General Election. It shows the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 174,730 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Badulla
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Badulla in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 275,180 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Ratnapura
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Ratnapura in the 2024 General Election. It shows the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 368,229 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Kegalle
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Kegalle in the 2024 General Election. It shows the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 312,441 votes ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Digamadulla
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Digamadulla in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district.The National People’s Power (NPP) received 146,313 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Batticaloa
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Batticaloa in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) received ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Anuradhapura
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Anuradhapura in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 331,692 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Hambantota
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Hambantota in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 234,083 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Kurunegala
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Kurunegala in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 651,476 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Polonnaruwa
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Polonnaruwa in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 159,010 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Vanni
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Vanni in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 39,894 votes ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Puttalam
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Puttalam in the 2024 General Election.It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 239,576 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Jaffna
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Jaffna in the 2024 General Election. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 80,830 votes and secured 3 seats. It displays the vote counts of the top three ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Trincomalee
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Trincomalee in the 2024 General Election. It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 87,031 ... -
General Election 2024 - Electoral District Results - Galle
(Manthri.lk, 15/11/2024)This infographic presents the electoral district results for Galle in the 2024 General Election.It displays the vote counts of the top three parties in the district. The National People’s Power (NPP) received 406,428 votes ...