Women’s Representation and Participation in Formal Politics
    by |17 July 2018|Interviews & Articles
    By Daisy Perry Despite the drive for gender equality promoted at the Beijing UN World Conference on Women in 1995, the Sri Lankan State appears to have taken little responsibility for narrowing the gender gap in political representation. Savitri Goonesekere explains...
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    Women’s Participation at the Grassroots Level
    by |17 July 2018|Interviews & Articles
    By Daisy Perry Drawing on the idea that the personal is political and challenging the notion that political empowerment can be measured solely with a seat in a legislature, this article focuses on the forms in which women who are not...
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    Performance-based Budget
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    As the annual process for compiling the next Budget gets underway, Cabinet this week approved a fresh Cabinet paper from Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera to establish a performance-based Budget for 2019. Many hope this will be an effective step to...
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    Simplifying exporter registration process is critical for export success: Study
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    July 10, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s current exporter registration process is unnecessarily lengthy, inefficient and unduly burdensome especially for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), a recent study has found. According to the main findings of a study conducted by...
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    Think tank urges govt. simplify export registration process
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    ECONOMYNEXT: Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to simplify the process for registering exporters to make it more effective, as the present system is seen as too cumbersome and time-consuming and open to abuse. Although the current registration process was...
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    Sri Lanka needs to simplify export registration process – Verité Research
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s government has been urged to simplify the process for registering exporters to make it more effective, as the present system is seen as too cumbersome and time-consuming, and open to abuse. Although the current registration process...
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    How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    A cargo ship navigating one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, near Hambantota, Sri Lanka, in May.CreditAdam Dean for The New York Times HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for...
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    Sri Lanka’s private insurance providers exploit language barrier: Research
    by |17 July 2018|Verité in the News
    Jun 15, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s top five general insurance providers which account for two-thirds of the market share, is seem to exploit the language barrier as none of them issue insurance documents for certain policies in Sinhala and...
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    Sachintha Fernando on Natural Disaster Insurance in Sri Lanka – Biz 1st Review 360
    by |17 July 2018|Interviews & Articles
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    Executive Director Nishan de Mel on Sri Lanka’s Energy Crisis – Aluth Parlimenthuwa
    by |17 July 2018|Interviews & Articles
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