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...

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...

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...

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...

The government has fulfilled nearly 35% of its 2017 Budget proposals (promises,) said Verité Research in their online platform created to monitor the budget promises. “Overall, compared to the first six months, the government has done relatively well,” said Nilangika...

Progress for the 2017 budget proposals tracked by Verité Research shows that almost a quarter of the budget promises have been broken with only 22 percent of the promises have made substantial progress. Eight percent of 2017 budget promises have...