March 2019

    Sri Lanka has fulfilled a quarter of 2018 budget proposals
    by |11 March 2019|Verité in the News
    Sri Lanka has completed just over a quarter of the proposals made in he 2018 budget so far, State Finance Minister Eran Wickramaratne said. "Implementation of Budget 2018 is at 27.6 percent completed, 64.2 percent in-progress and only 8.2 percent...
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    Sri Lanka needs a professional debt management office-Dr. Nishan de Mel
    by |11 March 2019|Interviews & Articles
    Taken from News1st Written by Staff Writer The Annual Budget seminar organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka was held in Colombo this morning (March 09). Chief Executive Officer of Verité Research, Dr. Nishan de Mel stressed...
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    Govt moves from hand outs to empower people
    by |08 March 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from DailyNews The government has shifted from a culture of providing handouts to a culture of empowering people through the 2019 Budget to be entrepreneurs contributing to the economy, said Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera at a post budget discussion...
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    Recipe for SOE reform
    by |05 March 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from DailyFT Image Courtesy - DailyFT Combined losses of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) rose to Rs. 87 billion in 2017, a new report said, calling for the Government to compile a comprehensive list of all SOEs and set basic reporting...
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    THIRTEEN MPs MUM IN 2018
    by |01 March 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from DailyNews By Disna Mudalige Thirteen MPs had not spoken during Parliamentary debates last year, a statistical analysis by ‘Manthri.lk’ website revealed. The website said its claim was based on Parliament Hanzard reports from January to December last year....
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    Eran attributes slow policy implementation to poor public service
    by |01 March 2019|Verité in the News
    Taken from DailyMirror By Shabiya Ali Ahlam Finance State Minister Eran Wickramaratne recently acknowledged the continuing lag in the implementation efforts in the country and said if at all there is an area to be picked for change, it would...
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