Au Sri Lanka, la cité fantôme de l’omnipotente famille Rajapakse
    by |27 February 2017|Verité in the News
    Président de 2005 à 2015, battu lors des dernières élections, Mahinda Rajapakse tente de revenir sur le devant de la scène. Il prépare aussi l’arrivée de son fils, Namal qui a repris sa province d’Hambantota. Reportage Petite ville perdue dans...
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    JVP Dominates Survey For Most Active MPs During Budget Debate
    by |14 February 2017|Verité in the News
    Three Parliamentarians representing the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna have topped a survey conducted by Manthri.lk for the most active Parliamentarians during the budget debate in Parliament. JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has topped the ranking as the most active MP during...
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    Nilangika Fernando on Export Finance in Sri Lanka – LMD Biz Talk
    by |13 February 2017|Interviews & Articles
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    Facilitating Trademark Registration
    by |31 January 2017|Press Release
    Facilitating Trademark Registration: Towards creating globally recognised Sri Lankan brands Sri Lankan businesses go through a lengthy and costly process to register their trademarks abroad. As a solution, the Government of Sri Lanka decided to join the Madrid Protocol. This...
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    Agri exports: What’s holding Sri Lanka back?
    by |18 January 2017|Press Release
    The effects of domestic NTBs on agricultural export growth A study by Verité Research (VR) together with the Lanka Fruit and Vegetables Producers, Processors and Exporters Association (LFVPPEA) found that domestic barriers faced by Sri Lankan exporters at the border...
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    Low Wages And Outdated Laws: The Domestic Worker’s Dilemma
    by |15 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Although many parts of the world had abolished slavery by the twentieth century, modes of unjust servitude exist, to this day, in the form of domestic workers who are paid a measly amount for their work. According to a recent...
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    Groundviews Forecast for 2017 with Janeen Fernando
    by |10 January 2017|Interviews & Articles
    This is the first in a series of video interviews forecasting what 2017 will have in store across different sectors, including women’s rights, economics, and arts and culture. Janeen Fernando from Verité Research speaks about the major areas of reform...
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    දින සියයේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ අසාර්ථකයිද?
    by |09 January 2017|Verité in the News
    2015 ජනවාරි 09 වැනි දින ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හයවැනි විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන දිවුරුම් දුන්නේය. ජනපති සිරිසේනගේ ඡන්ද ව්‍යාපාරය දිවෙන ලද්දේ කෙටිකාලීන සහන වැඩසටහන් සහ දිගුකාලීන ව්‍යුහමය වෙනස්කම් පිළිබඳ පොරොන්දු රැගත් දින 100 වැඩපිළිවෙළ පදනම්වය. මෙම පොරොන්දු ජනාධිපතිවරයා පත් වී...
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    71 out of 100: Yahapalanaya’s 100-Day Programme in retrospect
    by |08 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Manthri.lk, a website dedicated to monitor the performance of Parliamentarians, under an initiative of Verite Research, has given a score of 71% to the Maithripala Sirisena administration, based on its latest assessment on the promises fulfilled in terms of the...
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    Survivalist and Irrepressible: The Two Faces of the Sri Lankan Media
    by |06 January 2017|Verité in the News
    Introduction The past decade produced two critical moments of transition in Sri Lanka. On 19 May 2009, a 30-year war came to a brutal end with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). On 9 January 2015,...
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