September 2021

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    How Sri Lanka’s Overnight Flip to Total Organic Farming Has Led to an Economic Disaster
    by |06 September 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Print New Delhi: Sri Lanka has been hit by a serious economic emergency even as it struggles to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Dwindling foreign exchange reserves, a sinking currency and soaring food inflation have come together to create...
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    Tax Amnesty: The New Tax Scandal
    by |06 September 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in the DailyFT Sri Lanka’s overall tax system of indirect taxes means that the poor disproportionately pay more in taxes than a wealthier family. The Finance Bill codifies this  The gazetted Finance Bill is an unfair piece of legislation...
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    Quantifying COVID Clean-up of Air Quality in Colombo
    by |06 September 2021|Interviews & Articles
    Published in the Daily Mirror Among the many tragic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some positive offshoots as well. One of them is the improvement of Colombo’s air quality as a result of restricted movement to prevent...
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    Good Food for the Rich
    by |05 September 2021|Verité in the News
    Published in The Sunday Times As Sri Lanka banned the usage and import of chemical fertiliser for agriculture production – for both domestic agriculture and plantation agriculture -, I too received many requests from some of my regular readers to...
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    Sri Lanka Declares Economic Emergency – Nishan de Mel on Al Jazeera Inside Story
    by |04 September 2021|Interviews & Articles
    Executive Director Nishan de Mel appears on Al Jazeera's Inside Story segment alongside State Minister Ajith Nivaard Cabraal and MP Harsha de Silva to discuss the sudden depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee and the recent forex crisis.
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