VR Insights: Recent submissions
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Revitalising Export Finance for Export Growth
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-03-06)Since the turn of the century, Sri Lanka’s exports have fared poorly. The share of exports to GDP has steadily declined from 33 per cent to 15 per cent during 2000-2014, and exports have stagnated at around US$10 billion ... -
Are Women Reaping the Fruits of their Education? = කාන්තාවන් අධ්යාපනයේ නිසි ඵල ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් වී ඇතිද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-10-09)Economic research and theory is quite clear on the ‘returns to education’: education is generally positively correlated with jobs and income levels. However, this insight identifies the problem that in Sri Lanka, this ... -
The Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka - Is it Socialist? = ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය සැබෑ ලෙසම සමාජවාදී ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-05-21)This insight explores the question of whether Sri Lanka is waning in its commitments to social institutions. The analysis shows that while ‘developing’ Asia lags behind the rest of the world in commitments to social ... -
Is Sri Lanka’s Logistics Hub Steaming Ahead? = ශ්රී ලංකාව ක්රමෝපායික කේන්ද්රස්ථානයක් (Logistics Hub) වීමට සාර්ථක ගමනක යෙදෙන්නේද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07-02)Sri Lanka clearly has the potential to become a logistics hub. Over the past years, the Colombo port’s capacity has been expanded as a step towards this goal. However, although expanding supply through capacity expansion ... -
Sri Lanka climbs in income and declines in competitiveness = ශ්රී ලංකාව ආදායම් වර්ධනය පිළිබඳ වාර්තා තබද්දී තරගකාරීත්වය තුළ පසුබෑමක
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-09-24)The Global Competitiveness Report is produced by the World Economic Forum and currently compares and ranks the competitiveness landscape of 144 countries. In 2013, Sri Lanka was ranked at 65. This year, in 2014, Sri Lanka ... -
Fishing trespasses: A legal insight for better economics = අනවසර ධීවර ඇතුළුවීම්: යහපත් ආර්ථිකයක් සඳහා නෛතික දැක්මක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-11-05)The protracted dispute over fishing in the Palk Bay has been a feature of Indo-Lanka relations for decades. Both India and Sri Lanka regularly arrest fishermen for violating the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL). ... -
Economic Freedom in Sri Lanka: Changes and consequences = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථික නිදහස, මෑත කාලීන වෙනස්කම් සහ එහි ප්රතිවිපාක
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-05-07)The US-based Heritage Foundation (HF) has constructed a global index of economic freedom. The HF index uses 10 quantitative indicators that are grouped into four broad categories. (1) Rule of Law (property rights, and ... -
Cigarette taxes should be rescued from bureaucratic discretion = නිලධාරී අභිමතයට හසුවී ඇති සිගරට් මිල ගණන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-07-16)The focus of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is on raising taxes on tobacco, in order to raise prices and reduce consumption. This insight explains the serious consistency issues in Sri Lanka on setting taxes and prices ... -
Busting capital expenditure myth = ප්රාග්ධන වියදම පිළිබඳ මිථ්යාවෙහි බිඳවැටීම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-02-19)This Insight addresses the capital expenditure (Capex) myth by debunking the idea that Sri Lanka’s economic crises are driven by robust infrastructure spending. Instead, Verité highlights that actual Capex is consistently ... -
Achieving fiscal targets: Long procrastination will continue = බාලගිරි දෝෂයකට හසුවී ඇති අයවැය ඉලක්කයන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-01-22)Sri Lanka’s national budgets reveals a persistent pattern of "long procrastination" in meeting fiscal targets. The government is chronically addicted to missing its budget revenue targets, suffering consistent double-digit ... -
The Post War Winners: Urban rich or the rural poor? = පශ්චාත් යුධ සමයේ ජයග්රාහකයෝ : නාගරික ධනවතුන් ද? ග්රාමීය දුප්පතුන්ද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-02-05)In the post-war years, the UPFA government has professed a commitment to rural development. For example, UPFA’s “Mahinda Chinthana” Development Policy Framework” explicitly recognises the problem of rising inequality and ... -
UNHRC: Measuring Consequences and Implications = 2014 මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිල යෝජනාවලිය හා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාත්යන්තර වෙළඳාම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-04-02)Previously, Verité Insights examined the trading relationship between Sri Lanka and the countries that voted for and against the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka both in 2012 and in 2013. In this Insight, the same analysis ... -
Export economics beyond the ‘white underwear’ = සුදු යටඇඳුමින් එහා ගිය අපනයන ආර්ථිකයක්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-11-12)Exports from Sri Lanka are thrice cursed. They are declining as a share of global exports, as a percentage of Sri Lankan GDP, and also in absolute value. The apparel sector accounts for 52% of Sri Lanka’s total export ... -
Trade agreements that don’t deliver the goods = ප්රතිලාභ හිඟ වූ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වෙළඳ ගිවිසුම්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-19)Sri Lanka faces two problems in relation to trade agreements. First is the quantity of trade agreements and second is the quality. This insight analyses the second problem of the low quality of Sri Lanka's trade agreements. ... -
Is the Eco-system of Sri Lankan Economy Unfriendly to Women? = ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන ආර්ථික රාමුව කාන්තාවන්ට හිතකාමීද?
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-10-02)This Insight analyses data to show three problems facing women in the Sri Lankan economy. These are that (i) women tend to choose working abroad to working in Sri Lanka when they seek employment; (ii) when women do work ... -
Do Women and Minorities Face Glass Ceilings in Employment
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-05)Does employment data in Sri Lanka unearth a hidden story of discrimination? Do women and ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka encounter a glass ceiling that prevents them climbing the ladder of employment in the private sector ... -
Are diaspora workers source of Lanka’s growth? = දේශීය පදනමක් මත පල නොදැරූ මෑත කාලීන ආර්ථික වෘද්ධිය
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08-28)Post-war Sri Lanka has been looking prosperous, with high GDP growth numbers. This Insight delves into the data to examine where exactly the growth stems from within the three main sectors into which all of GDP is categorised: ... -
Sri Lanka is missing the world’s biggest trade party, and it’s in her backyard = ගෝලීය මහා වෙළඳ සාජ්ජය තම ගෙවත්තෙහිම සමරද්දී ශ්රී ලංකාව හුදෙකලා වේ
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-05-29)This Insight uses regional data to highlight how poorly Sri Lanka is doing in terms of signing Free Trade Agreements (FTA) compared to other Asian countries, despite being a regional pioneer in this area in the early 2000s. ... -
Reducing Trade Deficit: Is the government jousting with toothpicks? = වෙළඳ හිඟය අඩු කිරීම : රාජ්ය ප්රතිපත්තියෙහි මඟහැරුනු ඉසව්වන්
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-08-07)Sri Lanka has high trade deficits. And, instead of shrinking, they are increasing over the years. The current government policy, based on import substitution, will not be able to solve this serious problem. This Insight ... -
Agriculture and defence budgets reveal unstated priorities in policy = සැබෑ වියදම් සහ මූල්ය ප්රතිපාදන වෙන් කිරීම අතර නොගැලපුම
(Colombo: Verité Research, 2014-12-07)A country's budget is expected to outline a government's short and medium term fiscal policy framework; explaining how the government plans to raise, allocate and spend public resources. This insight is motivated by the ...