Experts shed Key Insights to Boosting EU-SL Economic Partnership
    by |21 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT Top diplomats, investors and economists recently echoed that commercial cooperation, development and partnership links with the European Union (EU) has immensely helped to develop Sri Lanka’s economy. “Needless to say, the EU representing 27 countries as a...
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    Hiking Cigarette Prices Would Make More Sense: Economist
    by |14 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on DailyFT Economist Nishan de Mel has said that increasing the cost of cigarettes rather than fuel prices would make better economic sense. In support of his argument, de Mel, in a tweet, said the estimated loss incurred by...
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    Invisible Under the Law: The Consistent Neglect of Domestic Workers in Sri Lanka
    by |13 June 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on The Sunday Times  As COVID-19 sinks its teeth into Sri Lanka anew this month, Work-From-Home (WFH) has become the new modus operandi for white-collar workers. As our domestic and working spaces merge into one, we now better understand...
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    Port City – What Next?
    by |27 May 2021|Verité in the News
    Published on Colombo Telegraph There may be differences in semicolons and adjectives but broadly speaking the SJB of Sajith P and the UNP (still loyal to Ranil?) have very similar positions on the Port City Act. They are in agreement that many...
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    Privatisation of Public Data: Sri Lanka Customs as a Case in Point
    by |22 April 2021|Interviews & Articles
    Published in - DailyMirror Data collected and held by government agencies is a valuable ‘public asset’. Properly utilised, such data can help the private and public sector better contribute to Sri Lanka’s economic growth. These datasets are compiled at public...
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    Concessional Financing Is Not without Controversy – Report
    by |19 April 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the Sunday Observer Explicitly evaluating whether loans are concessional or adverse considering the combined consequence of the grant element and cost escalation on the tied element/unsolicited proposal would be advantageous for Sri Lanka.  By contrast, at present only...
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    Sri Lankan Understanding with George Cooke featuring Subhashini Abeysinghe
    by |19 April 2021|Interviews & Articles
    What can Sri Lanka do to succeed? Full of fresh insight, data and intellectual perspectives by Subhashini Abeysinghe of Verite Research on re-understanding and re-thinking Sri Lanka. Hi Magazine interview with George Cooke.
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    Government urged to take pragmatic view on debt management
    by |23 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Island By Sanath Nanayakkare If Sri Lanka has the right policy mix to effectively carry on with its debt rollover and to maintain a surplus in its current account, the country can demonstrate that it has entered...
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    නඩත්තු නීතිය: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සහ සිංගප්පූරුවට එකිනෙකාගෙන් උගත හැකි පාඩම්.
    by |22 March 2021|Interviews & Articles
    මෙරට නඩත්තු නීතිය 1999 අංක 37 දරන නව නඩත්තු පනතින්  පාලනය වේ. එය එතෙක් පැවති 1889 අංක 20  පනත අවලංගු කර හඳුන්වා දෙනු ලැබූවකි.     මෙම පනත තම නඩත්තු වියදම් සපුරා ගත නොහැකි  විවාහක පුද්ගලයෙකුට තම  සහකරු හෝ සහකාරිය වෙතින් නඩත්තු...
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    Quality Development for Quality Growth and Quality Life
    by |16 March 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in -DailyNews The year 2021 marks the 70th Anniversary of the San Francisco Peace Conference in which the late former President (then Finance Minister) J.R. Jayewardene made a historic speech supporting Japan’s cause after the World War II, quoting...
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