Open Budget Survey: Sri Lanka Country Summary 2019

    Open Budget Survey: Sri Lanka Country Summary 2019
    by |03 June 2020
    Government budget decisions – what taxes to levy, what services to provide, and how much debt to take on – affect how equal a society is and the well being of its people, including whether the most disadvantaged will have...
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    Cigarette Taxation: 20 Billion Extra Revenue in 2020 if Indexation Is Implemented
    by |20 May 2020
    The Government could raise an extra Rs. 20 Billion from cigarette taxation in 2020 from the proper implementation of the indexation policy articulated in the 2019 Budget and rational calibration of taxes for all cigarette brands. (more…)
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    Information Disorder and Mainstream Media in Sri Lanka: A Case Study
    by |08 May 2020
    A considerable amount of research on 'fake news' or information disorder tends to to focus on social media as the producer and distributor of false content. Within this discourse on information disorder, mainstream media is often positioned as an inadvertent...
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    Improving National Budget Practices: Solutions for a Professional Government
    by |02 March 2020
    Verité Research conducted a forum on " Improving National Budget Practices: Solutions for a Professional Government" on the 27th of February 2020 at Hilton Colombo. At this forum Verité Research discussed how the government can improve its budget process through...
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    Sri Lanka: Resolution 30/1 Implementation Monitor: Statistical & Analytical Review No. 5
    by |28 February 2020
    This is Verité Research’s latest study on the Sri Lankan government’s commitments on reconciliation and accountability. The 43rd UNHRC Session began in February 2020, and Sri Lanka’s progress in implementing Resolution 30/1 was taken up on 27 February 2020. (more…)
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    Flawed rationale behind EPF re-entering the stock market
    by |18 December 2019
    At the end of 2018, the EPF resolved to re-enter the stock market despite substantial losses and allegations of mismanagement on EPF’s equity investments in the past. The EPF provides two reasons for the decision: (i) that members will benefit...
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    CSO Sustainability Index 2018 : Asia Report
    by |06 December 2019
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    CSO Sustainability Index 2018 : Sri Lanka Country Report
    by |06 December 2019
    The Civil Society Organization Sustainability Index (CSOSI) assesses the sustainability of the CSO sector across several countries in different regions around the world. Since its inception in 1997, it has expanded from covering 18 countries in the Europe and Eurasia...
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    ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ කාලය තුළ පුද්ගලික මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය කිරීමට මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව සතු බලතල
    by |07 November 2019
    මැතිවරණ සමයක දී මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය කිරීම සදහා මාර්ගෝපදේශයන් නිකුත් කිරීමෙහි ලා ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ මැතිවරණ කොමිෂන් සභාව මෙරට ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන්ම බලගන්වා තිබේ. මැතිවරණ සමයක දී මාධ්‍ය නියාමනය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වර්තමානයේ පවත්නා කතිකාවත වඩාත්ම කේන්ද්‍රගතව තිබෙන්නේ  රාජ්‍ය මාධ්‍යයන් නියාමනය කිරීම සදහා මෙම මාර්ගෝපදේශයන් භාවිතාවන...
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    Powers of the Election Commission to Regulate Privately-Owned Media during Elections in Sri Lanka
    by |06 November 2019
    The Election Commission of Sri Lanka is constitutionally empowered to regulate the media during an election period by issuing media guidelines.The present discourse on media regulation during elections focuses on how these guidelines have been used to regulate state-owned media....
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