The promises of the government of Sri Lanka remain in limbo three years later – W Radio
    by |09 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Chathuri Dissanayake Colombo, 9 ene (EFE).- El actual presidente de Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, llegó al poder con el objetivo de plantar cara a la corrupción y cambiar la cultura política del anterior mandatario Mahinda Rajapaksa, pero, tres años después,...
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    President of Sri Lanka celebrates 3 years in power amid doubts over his mandate
    by |08 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Colombo, 8 ene (EFE).- El presidente de Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, celebró hoy el tercer aniversario de su llegada al poder con una agenda repleta de actividades que incluyó la inauguración de varias infraestructuras, mientras algunas voces críticas le recriminaban...
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    Three years: Glass half full?
    by |08 January 2018|Verité in the News
    President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe On 8 January 2015, the Sri Lankan polity experienced an unexpected change. A President who planned to rule until he could hand over power to his son lost by half a million...
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    Is Sri Lanka on course for a lost decade?
    by |07 January 2018|Verité in the News
    May 19, 2019 will mark 10 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka ended with the complete annihilation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Post-civil war Sri Lanka has been a story of missed opportunities. Former President Mahinda...
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    Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe on ‘Market Watch’
    by |16 December 2017|Interviews & Articles
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    Trump’s global credibility is shot
    by |06 December 2017|Verité in the News
    (CNN)No, the entire world is not obsessed with Donald Trump, but you have to travel far to reach a place where people are not following closely -- and worrying deeply -- about what's happening in Washington. I traveled some 10,000...
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    On Balanced Growth at Rajarata University
    by |03 December 2017|Verité in the News
    Last Thursday, November 23rd, university economists and their invited guests gathered at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (outside Colombo) to hold the annual conference of the Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists (SLFUE). Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, the Governor of...
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    Sri Lanka’s Failure to Confront Its Past and Present Casts a Shadow on Its Future
    by |30 November 2017|Verité in the News
    JAFFNA, Sri Lanka—More than eight years have passed since Sri Lanka declared the end of its nearly three-decade long civil war. Since then, the small island-nation in the Indian Ocean has made significant progress. The country has remained mostly peaceful;...
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    Right to Information in Sri Lanka – Sabrina Esufally on News Line
    by |16 November 2017|Interviews & Articles
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    Budget 2018: Enterprise Sri Lanka must address realities
    by |15 November 2017|Verité in the News
    In 2017 Q1, Q2 and Q3 consumer consumption contracted. This must be arrested The other day at a post-Budget forum the Minister of Finance said that Enterprise Sri Lanka needed to take off just like the USS Enterprise in the...
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