July 2021

Verité Research Hands over New Study on Due Process to Minister of Justice

by |30 July 202106 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in the DailyFT Verité Research yesterday handed over a report on Sri Lanka’s due process and preparedness during emergencies to Justice Minister Ali Sabry. The purpose of the report was to study the Judiciary’s response to the challenges of...

Verité Research hands over new study on due process to Minister of Justice

by |29 July 202116 September 2021|Press Release

Verité Research Executive Director Dr. Nishan de Mel handed over a report on Sri Lanka’s due process and preparedness during emergencies to Minister of Justice Ali Sabry earlier today (29 July). The purpose of the report was to study the...

‘Sri Lanka’s Import Regime is One of the most Complex and Protectionist in the World’ – US State Department

by |24 July 202114 October 2021|Verité in the News

Published on Tamil Guardian Citing the World Bank, the US State Department‘s Investment Climate report highlights that Sri Lanka’s “import regime is one of the most complex and protectionist in the world”. The World Banks’ Doing Business Index ranked Sri...

Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa Dynasty Is Not as Secure as It Appears

by |15 July 202106 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Economist SINCE WINNING the presidency in a landslide nearly two years ago, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has worried not that he has too many relatives in government, but that he has too few. One of the 72-year-old’s elder brothers,...

Sound Analysis Critical for Economy – Deshal de Mel on Newsline

by |07 July 202104 August 2021|Interviews & Articles

Research Director Deshal de Mel appears on Newsline to talk about Sri Lanka being recently reclassified as a low-middle-income country and the necessity of sound analyses to overcome Sri Lanka's recent economic struggles.

Making Public Data Public: Sri Lanka Misses Its Own Targets While India Races Ahead

by |07 July 202106 September 2021|Interviews & Articles

Published in the Daily Mirror In Sri Lanka, the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) is the primary government agency responsible for collecting and providing access to data that can be used for statistical analysis. The stated vision of the...

Desperately Searching for Dollars: Importers and Import-Intensive Exporters Badly Hit

by |04 July 202106 September 2021|Verité in the News

Published in The Sunday Times Importers continued to fret this week with containers–many of them holding inputs for export manufacturing–held up because dollar-strapped Sri Lankan banks were slow in settling payments with the sellers’ banks abroad. “I bring in raw...