Verité in the News

    Extremism Gains Ground In Sri Lanka
    by |20 May 2018|Verité in the News
    The logjam is creating ground for extremist thinking on both sides of the ethnic divide  COLOMBO: Nine years after the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009, reconciliation...
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    Logjam in ethnic reconciliation spurs extremism in Sri Lanka
    by |20 May 2018|Verité in the News
    Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 20: Nine years after the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009, reconciliation between Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils still appears to...
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    Derana Aruna daily segment
    by |17 May 2018|Verité in the News
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    How Should The Media Report Suicide And Rape?
    by |08 May 2018|Verité in the News
    What comes to your mind when you remember media reports of rape and suicide? Photographs of the victims, including their names? Gruesome details of how it happened, along with quotes from the family? The photographs and names might help to...
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    Revisiting 1915: lessons from a violent past
    by |07 May 2018|Verité in the News
    The recent mob attacks against Muslim families and property in Kandy is another sad chapter in Sri Lanka’s history of ethnic violence. Now, many are re-examining the past, looking for reasons for why this ugly strain of communalism will not...
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    Thrice-proposed EXIM Bank plan on the back-burner
    by |06 May 2018|Verité in the News
    Sri Lanka has put the proposal made to establish an EXIM Bank on the back burner despite a pressing need of export finance for the acceleration of the country’s exports, a study conducted by an independent think tank revealed. The...
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    Budget Promises For 2017: To What Extent Have They Been Kept?
    by |04 May 2018|Verité in the News
    On November 10, 2016, former Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake stood up in parliament to deliver the annual Budget Speech, just as his predecessors did before him. With the theme ‘Accelerating growth with social inclusion,’ this was the 71st budget...
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    Open Budget Survey 2017 Released
    by |03 May 2018|Verité in the News
    Verité Research highlights, that bureaucracy in Sri Lanka is not developing at the same speed as the economy. The Executive Director of Verite Research Nishan De Mel expressed these views, addressing a media briefing to release the open budget survey...
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    Almost a quarter of the 2017 budget proposals became broken promises
    by |29 April 2018|Verité in the News
    The government’s transparency in disclosing information on the progress of 2017 budget proposals has improved significantly although some ministries and state institutions were reluctant to reveal details despite its public obligation to do so, two researchers of Verité Research, a...
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    Budget 2017 stumbles on execution
    by |29 April 2018|Verité in the News
    Verité Research Director Subhashini Abeysinghe (right) and Verité Research Assistant Analyst Nilangika Fernando discussing the Budget tracker with reporters yesterday - Pic by Upul Abayasekera Budget 2017 has scored better on transparency than implementation, with 22% of proposals making substantive...
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