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    Realistic or just Rhetoric? The Ban on Chemical Fertilizer
    by |27 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Groundviews  In early 2021, a survey conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute, found that farmers faced food insecurity as a result of the measures that had been put into place to curb the spread of Covid-19. Of...
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    Crucial Farmer Opinion on Synthetic Fertilizer Ban Warns of 50 percent Reduction in Harvest
    by |26 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on CounterPoint  More than three quarters of farmers who took part in a country wide telephone survey last month said they currently use synthetic fertilizer to cultivate.  Their prediction that their harvest will reduce by almost half if they...
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    Farmers Against Haphazard Rush to Switch to Organic Fertiliser
    by |26 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT First-of-its-kind survey by Verité Research reveals pulse of farmers on fertiliser issue Farmers supportive of Govt. vision to move to organic agriculture, but almost 80% feel shift would require more than a year  Urge properly phased-out process...
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    Verité Research releases results of island-wide farmers’ survey on fertiliser ban
    by |25 August 2021|Press Release
    On April 22, 2021, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced a ban on the import of chemical fertiliser in Sri Lanka. Verité Research conducted a “Farmers’ Pulse” telephone survey to elicit the views of farmers, on this policy and its expected impact....
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    De Facto Rationing of Dollars Arising out of Forex Crisis
    by |22 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on The Sunday Times While Sri Lanka is grappling with the ongoing foreign exchange crisis, ‘rationing’ is taking place amongst letters of credit as those who have the firepower get the benefit while others are deprived of dollars. This...
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    Proposed Tax Amnesty: Exercising Caution in Income Generation
    by |21 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on The Morning  Govt. expects $ 500 m income through tax amnesty: Cabraal Important for people to submit their taxable supplies: IRD Chief Amnesties granted on previous occasions have failed: Dr. Wijewardena While the Government states it expects to...
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    Over LKR 300 million spent on Gender-related KPIs, “No Progress” on 10 out of 12
    by |03 August 2021|Press Release
    In 2018, the then Ministry of Women and Child Affairs developed 12 Gender-related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These KPIs were developed to ensure that government agencies were committed towards achieving Goal 5 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on...
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    Private Sector Needs Consistent Policies to Take Risks
    by |02 August 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Daily News The biggest support the government can give to the private sector is to give them confidence and this can be done by spelling out consistent policies and marinating them, said Chairman of Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,...
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    Verité Research hands over new study on due process to Minister of Justice
    by |29 July 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...
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    ‘Sri Lanka’s Import Regime is One of the most Complex and Protectionist in the World’ – US State Department
    by |24 July 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...
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